- Volume No.:
- 198
- Editor:
- Lisa Firth
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publisher:
- Independence Educational Publishers
- Replaces Issue:
- Vol. 118 Focus on Sport
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Key Facts
- In a Government survey, during the week prior to the interview just over one in fi ve 5- to 19-year-olds (21%) had taken part in three hours or more organised sport. 47% had done no organised sport. (page 1)
- A change to distribution of Lottery money will see £50m more come to sport annually from 2012. (page 6)
- A survey has shown that people in Britain think that a fair average salary for a professional footballer would be £62,000 per year. Premiership players all earn between £1 million and £5 million per year. (page 11)
- The latest statistics revealed during the 2008/09 football season: 3,752 arrests were made at domestic and international matches in England and Wales. (page 13)
- London 2012 will make history as the first Games to have representation by men and women in every sport. (page 19)
- Football is Britain’s national game. Yet in 2009 not one gay professional footballer in Britain, of which there are undoubtedly many, feels that football is an industry in which it is safe to be openly gay. (page 26)
- An athlete can be called for drug testing at any time, in or out of competition. During competition, some sports only carry out drug testing on the winning team or top three competitors. Others will test by random selection from all competitors. (page 27)
- The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) serves as the independent international body responsible for coordinating and monitoring the global fight against doping in sport. (page 31)
- As far back as the 776 BC Olympics, athletes were using cola plants and even eating sheep’s testicles in an effort to boost performance. (page 34)
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Sporting Trends
Children and young people’s participation in organised sport, School cricket scheme teaches pupils ‘the three Fs’: Fitness, Friendship and Fair play, Olympic-style sports competition for young people launched as part of 2012 legacy, David Cameron’s sports cuts will leave Britain playing catch-up for years, How to build the perfect athlete, The politics of football: should footballers be wage capped?, Violence down at football grounds, Sports stars are no role models, say scientists, Why do women want to be WAGs?.
Chapter 2 Inclusion in Sport
Investing in inclusive sport, 2012 to make history as fi rst gender equality Games, Sport, sex and gender, Wheelchair sport FAQs, Talent initiative gives Britain’s Paralympic potential a boost, Exercising with health problems, Asians in football, Homophobia in football, Leagues behind: football’s failure to tackle anti-gay abuse.
Chapter 3 Doping
Types of drug testing in sport, Drugs and sport, The history of drugs in sport, Drugs in sport: the debate, Performance-enhancing drugs should be allowed in sport, Sport cheats are bottom of the class in pupil poll, British athletes face up to £1,000 fine for missing drug tests.
Key Facts
Glossary
Index
Additional Resources
Acknowledgements
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The Study Guide for: Sport and Society - Volume 198
Each book in the Issues series has a study guide. These four-page guides provide a variety of discussion points and other activities to suit a wide range of ability levels and interests.
Publisher: Independence Educational Publishers
Price: £1.95
ISBN: ISBN: 978 1 86168 559 9
