A group of female ski jumpers from Canada has filed a complaint with Canada’s Human Rights Commission as a way to get the Canadian government to pressure the IOC on its decision not to include women’s ski jumping in the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. The ski jumpers say IOC’s decision discriminates them.

Somali government forces and their Ethiopian allies have overpowered the Islamist group that controlled much of southern Somalia for the past six months. This is good news for female athletes who are now returning to the capital’s sports fields after they were banished from sport by the Islamists.

In Somalia, the national Olympic Committee and the country’s new Islamic rulers are working on a framework for the practice of sport in the country. The Islamic Courts Union decreed in June that sport is a “satanic act” but recently one leading sheik said that the Islamists are not totally against sport. Instead they want to encourage sports of Islam.

Knowledge bank: Doping is widespread not only in elite sports but also in fitness centers across the world and it is a highly underestimated problem. 

Knowledge bank: In an assessment of women's role in hockey, Laura Robinson revisits some of the cases of sexual abuse from her book "Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada's National Sport". She also adds some very disturbing new stories about hockey players abusing girls as young as nine.

The case of accused rapist Kobe Bryant reconfirms the pathology of jock culture, says Laura Robinson in this comment.

The rape culture of the hockey locker room is on trial in Canada. Police suspects that one coach in particular is responsible for somewhere between 20 and 100 assaults on young hockey players, reports Laura Robinson.

Knowledge bank: While Africa is rapidly improving in the world of sport, we should ask ourselves where are the African sportswomen? In this presentation I will explain how surviving and succeeding in sport as a woman is still a nightmare for many Tanzanian girls and women.