ICOS News
- December 10, 2019
- December 10, 2019From The Moscow Times.
- December 09, 2019
- November 26, 2019
- November 20, 2019
- September 30, 2019Call for papers.
- June 28, 2019In an op-ed piece for the Western News, Bob Barney casts a critical eye on the economic implications of Olympic hosting strategies.
- June 06, 2019Professor Angela Schneider, School of Kinesiology at Western University, will succeed Michael Heine as Director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies, on July 1, 2019.
- June 05, 2019The University of Lausanne has issued a Call for Papers for the Congress of Youth and Winter Sports 2020. The event will be held in Lausanne on January 7-8, 2020.
- June 04, 2019In an unexpected decision, the Swiss supreme federal court has temporarily set aside IAAF regulations banning Caster Semenya from competing without medication. The South African runner will be able to compete without medication to June 25.
- May 29, 2019ICOS Director Angela Schneider was recently a guest on CBC mid-day radio call-in show Ontario Today speaking about the Caster Semenya ruling by the IAAF and Court of Arbitration for Sport
- May 27, 2019The Court of Arbitration for Sport's newly established Anti-Doping Division announces its first decision. The Division began operating in January 2019 to hear and decide anti-doping cases as a first-instance authority.
- May 17, 2019The University of Illinois Press has announced publication of a new book on Olympic economic history by Stephen Wenn and Bob Barney.
- May 16, 2019The World Anti-doping Agency launches call for proposals for its 2020 social science research grants, with a deadline of July 14, 2019.
- May 01, 2019Offering a complex technical rationale, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected by majority the appeal by South African female runner Caster Semenya against the IAAF's "Regulations for Female Classification". If Semenya wants to enter IAAF's now "Restricted Classifications" events (400m to 1 mile races), she has to reduce her "natural testosterone level" to a new artificial lower level through adherence to an alteration regime of at least 6 months duration that relies on "normal oral contraceptives."
- April 29, 2019The IOC Olympic Studies Centre has announced its Advanced Olympic Research (for established researchers) and PhD Student and Early Career Grant Programmes in the humanities and social sciences.
- April 24, 2019British Paralympic officials were stunned to learn that hotels near their training camp for the 2020 Paralympics demand payments for making rooms accessible.
- April 17, 2019Kinesiology PhD student Andrew Pettit has been selected to participate in the upcoming session of the International Olympic Academy, in Olympia, Greece.
- February 04, 2019The Canadian Olympic Committee invites application by 20-35 olds for participation in the 2019 International Olympic Academy
- January 23, 2019The Observatory for Mega-Events Research invites submission from all disciplines and interdisciplinary studies for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Key Legacies Conference, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, 17-18 June 2019. A special session on "Legacy in terms of image" will be part of the event.
- January 07, 2019Referring to critics of WADA's handling of the Russian doping case as a 'lynch mob', senior IOC member Richard Pound has forcefully defended the World Anti-Doping Agency's response to Russian authorities' breach of commitments in the ongoing investigation.
