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For athletes, retiring from a sport can be a major life change. But despite the many challenges, it’s possible for some former athletes to find success in post-athletic careers.

This week, NFL star Tyrann Mathieu announced he was retiring from football. The safety, who is known for his toughness and blond patch in his hair, played 12 seasons with the New Orleans Saints and earned 21.5 sacks. He will now coach with the Buffalo Bills. Meanwhile, USA women’s soccer star Alex Morgan hung up her cleats after an impressive career that saw her score 123 goals with the national team.

As these athletes and others prepare to hang up their spikes, the BEAA recently released a survey that shows nearly half of Britain’s Paris Olympians and Paralympians feel unprepared for life after sport. The survey suggests that this may be partly due to the lack of support and planning offered to athletes once they retire from competitive sport.

Athletes should consider keeping in contact with their peers and coaches, even once they’ve stopped competing. This helps to maintain a connection and gives them someone to talk with about their transition. Family members, partners and friends also help to make the process easier.

It’s also important for athletes to plan ahead financially. After years of shelling out thousands for elite coaching and equipment and sacrificing a regular paycheck, it can be challenging to adjust to a world without sport in their early post-athletic lives. For this reason, it’s often helpful for them to set up savings accounts or invest money in non-sporting ventures.

As a concept, the World Test Championship is a good idea. Spanning two-year cycles, the ICC’s newest competition aims to add context and excitement to the game’s longest format. It also aims to ensure that top teams play each other more often, something the sport needs more than it’s had in recent times.

But the way it’s been executed is far from ideal. While it’s not as skewed as some have suggested, it still favours the traditional big three. That’s because teams don’t have to play each other over a full round-robin, and series are confined to two Tests, which is not commercially viable for countries struggling to balance their international schedules.

Last November, New Zealand ended 12 years of Indian home dominance, storming the spin-heavy citadel for a 3-0 victory. The Proteas’ 69-run win in the 2025 final, courtesy of Aiden Markram’s outstanding hundred and Temba Bavuma’s crucial fifty, was no less remarkable. It ended a string of tournament heartache for the Proteas, most notably at the one-day and T20 World Cups.

The next three WTC finals will be staged in England – a decision made at the ICC’s annual conference in Singapore. It rewarded the English and Wales Cricket Board for its “successful track record in hosting recent finals”. India had reportedly hoped to host the 2027 showpiece, but the ECB said they were “absolutely delighted” to be chosen again.

Join athletes from across the continent as they converge in the heart of Japan for a thrilling display of athletic prowess. From the precision of martial arts to the speed of track and field, 2026 Asian Games will be an unforgettable journey of competition and camaraderie.

The Asian Games are the biggest sports events in Asia, fostering friendship through sport and contributing to world peace. The first Asian Games were held in 1951, shortly after the end of World War II. The Games are a unique opportunity for nations of Asia to come together and share their cultures and values.

The Games will be held from September 19 to October 4, 2026, in Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City, with 40 events and 15,000 athletes and team officials from 45 countries and regions. The 2026 Games will be the third time that Japan has hosted the Asian Games, following Tokyo in 1958 and Hiroshima in 1994.

The Games will feature a new format, where athletes will stay on a cruise ship instead of at the traditional Games Village. This ‘floating village’ will be equipped with all the facilities that athletes are used to at Games Villages, including dining halls and gymnasiums. The Games will be held during typhoon season, which makes this unique arrangement even more crucial. The organizers have also been working on a contingency plan for evacuating athletes in the event of a tsunami or typhoon. The Olympic Council of Asia has agreed to this plan and is considering whether to adopt it for future editions.

Formula 1 standings are the real-time indicators of drivers and teams’ progress across a demanding calendar of Grands Prix and shorter, preliminary events known as Sprints. In a sport where a fraction of a second can mean the difference between triumph and disappointment, standings are vitally important.

Drivers and teams earn points for themselves if they finish within the top 10 at each race. Teams that achieve a total of the most points at the end of the season win the coveted Constructors’ Championship title. The champions are awarded a substantial prize fund.

Each team runs two cars in every race. Both cars must finish in the top 10 to score points. Drivers who change teams during the season retain their individual driver points. They also keep the points they earned for their previous teams, if those teams were to finish higher than their new ones in the race.

A total of 25 points are available each race, with a maximum of 43 points for the driver who wins that race. Drivers who complete the fastest lap earn a bonus point.

Dead heats between teams happen regularly – though they’ve never decided the outcome of the championship itself. If two teams are level on points at the end of the season, the winner is determined by counting back results, with the team that has more race wins placed higher than those with more second place finishes and so on.

Ice hockey was introduced to the Olympics in 1920 and is currently a winter Olympic sport. The sport was first included in the men’s tournament, and a memorable moment from that event is known as “the Miracle on Ice.” In 1980 in Lake Placid, the United States shocked the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Olympic ice hockey competition, and it is still considered one of the greatest upsets in the history of the game.

The games are played on a rectangular ice surface, which is divided into three zones by blue lines. The neutral zone is in the middle and includes a center circle where faceoffs take place, with attacking and defending zones on either side of it. Each zone also has a faceoff circle, spots and a goal crease.

Each team consists of six players and the goalkeeper. There is a referee and linesmen for each game, and the rules of the game are set by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The rules are slightly different than those used in professional NHL hockey. The IIHF also has rules regarding the use of performance enhancing drugs, and it maintains a Registered Testing Pool of top players who are subject to regular in-competition testing.

The Olympics are held every four years and the games begin with a round-robin tournament where each team plays each other once. After that, the teams that are ranked highest in the group play each other once more in an elimination round. The winning team earns a gold medal and the losing team earns silver.

When you hear the term esports, you may picture a basketball arena or a football stadium crammed with fans cheering on teams of athletes. But esport tournaments are the gamer’s version of athletic championships, where teams go head-to-head in their video games for a huge cash prize and a spot on the world stage.

Whether you’re a hardcore gamer or just getting into competitive gaming, this is an exciting time to be alive, as the industry is growing rapidly and bringing in millions of viewers. From small gaming meetups to international competitions with millions of people tuning in, esports is reshaping how we play and who we’re competing against.

If you’re looking to host your own esports event, the first step is choosing the right venue. You’ll need to have the right space and infrastructure for the number of people you expect, and you’ll want to ensure that your venue has good internet connectivity and enough power outlets for all the gaming hardware and accessories that will be used during the event.

As the world’s most popular esport, League of Legends (LoL) has established itself as an unstoppable force. With a total of 200 million people watching last year’s LoL Worlds contest, it’s clear that the battle arena game has captured a global audience. LoL tournaments feature teams from around the world, and some of the biggest ones—such as the upcoming MSI 2025 in Vancouver—feature top-tier LoL pros like Faker and s1mple.

For athletes, social media can be a valuable tool to build their brand, connect with fans and reach new audiences. But, like any other marketing tool, it can also have negative impacts if used improperly.

Social media in sports has reshaped the industry by providing teams, leagues, and players with innovative ways to connect with a global audience and generate revenue opportunities. From showcasing their corporate social responsibility initiatives to sharing behind-the-scenes content and highlighting their personalities, social media platforms have allowed for a more personal connection with fans that builds stronger fan loyalty.

In addition, social media is a powerful tool for promoting e-commerce for teams and athletes. With a variety of shoppable posts, in-app checkout and integrated e-commerce functionalities, sports brands can offer their fans a more seamless shopping experience that drives purchase intent.

One of the biggest benefits for athletes from social media is its ability to promote their training regimes and workouts. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, triathlete Jan Frodeno posted about his unique methods to train for a marathon using only a countercurrent pool, bike roller and treadmill in his home. This type of content resonates with fans and helps them feel a more personal connection to the athlete, which in turn increases their brand value for endorsement deals or future career prospects.

As a communication platform, social media allows fans to banter and discuss their favorite teams and players in real-time. This helps amplify their passion for the sport, especially during tough losses or long offseasons. As noted by Sports Media HQopen_in_new, the ultimate goal for sports marketers is to build upon this fan fervor and keep it going from game to game and season to season.

For more than a century, female athletes have struggled to earn equality with male sports stars. They face glaring disparities in popularity, unequal funding, and open discrimination and sexism. They are also disproportionately underrepresented in pivotal sport institutions, decision-making bodies, and leadership positions in the world of sports. And gender inequality extends beyond men and women, impacting girls from marginalized communities such as racial/ethnic minorities, the socio-economically disadvantaged, disabled athletes, immigrants, and LGBTQ athletes.

Yet despite the challenges, many positive developments are taking place. These include increasing awareness of the problem through awareness-raising events, and greater investments in gender-equal programs. More importantly, new dynamics are shifting how we talk about and think about sports. These include a more critical lens, a re-evaluation of the category of woman, and an emphasis on the importance of social change and equality.

A new study, based on data from the Special Eurobarometer 525 (April-May 2022), fills a quantitative gap in research on European attitudes towards gender equality in sport. It uses Fuzzy-Hybrid TOPSIS to provide a synthetic indicator of Europeans’ attitudes towards Gender Equality in Sport (ATGEQS), Latent Profile Analysis to cluster respondents based on their ATGEQS scores, and Multinomial Logistic Regression to explore the influence of socio-economic factors on ATGEQS. Overall, results show substantial regional and socio-political differences in attitudes towards gender equality in sport. Countries with high ATGEQS are associated with strong welfare policies, progressive gender norms and good levels of female representation in leadership positions. By contrast, low ATGEQS are linked to a tradition of conservative religiosity and older socio-political structures that are resistant to progressive reforms.

The engine driving modern sports technology progress lies in artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR), both of which are now widely deployed into major sports organizations for various applications, from performance optimization and predictive analytics to immersive AR/VR fan experiences and smart-stadium IoT roll-outs. Moreover, they’re helping to connect athletes and fans with their sport faster and easier, expanding the reach of sports teams beyond their local market and enabling new ways to engage spectators and build loyalty.

Virtual reality and augmented reality are revolutionizing the sporting experience, bringing spectators closer to the action by using interactive overlays of real-time stats, betting odds, route maps, player data, and more. These immersive technologies are also being used for athlete training, allowing them to practice game scenarios in a controlled virtual environment. In addition, they’re boosting sports video streaming and televised coverage to enhance the fan experience.

In addition, AI is transforming refereeing, with automated match management systems automating decision-making and reducing human errors. It’s also being used in scouting and recruitment to discover future talent and help improve team performance. AI-powered predictive analysis software can identify potential injuries and assist in the development of effective training regimens.

In the next few years, sports leagues and clubs will continue to diversify their offerings in order to attract a broader audience. This will include emerging sports such as esports and mixed martial arts (MMA), which have garnered interest from younger generations. In addition, the growing popularity of soccer leagues in North America will fuel demand for sports technology solutions that support player and spectator experience.

Whether they helped bring down Jose Mourinho, led a march against their club owner or pushed back against plans to commercialize the game, fan protest stories remind us that football fans have a long history of using their passion for the game as a weapon in the fight for change. While not as grand as some tifos, fan activism isn’t a passing fad. It’s a powerful tool in the fight for social justice.

Often, news media coverage of protests portrays members of underrepresented groups negatively. To avoid this trap, journalists should focus on framing stories about the protesters in ways that promote positive attitudes toward them. This article demonstrates how to do this by showing how a journalist can humanize the person behind the protest and make readers want to support their cause.

By focusing on Padalecki’s personality, hobbies and family, this article helps readers see the person behind the protest and makes them want to support him and his cause. By also highlighting his philanthropic work, it further promotes positive attitudes toward him and his cause.