Deep into the Olympics and getting reacquainted with the elation and agony of competition, I started obsessing about measurement. Noah Lyles grabbing 100m gold by five thousandths of a second – Wow! I’m not sure that margin was even measurable three Olympics ago. Fixated, I wanted to think about events where distance, time and finishing […]
Although my academic interest in sports injuries goes back a long way I only really started thinking about return-to-play (RTP) practices after attending my club’s 125th anniversary. There I trailed one of my old teammates into a function; he was only a couple of years older than me but much bigger and stronger, and way […]
I’ve recently been involved with some research work around concussion in rugby union and the ‘Ryan Crotty’ story has kept surfacing during discussions, with different views coming from different groups of people. For international readers, or those not enamoured of rugby, Ryan Crotty is a 29-year-old veteran player for the All Blacks, the NZ national […]