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The Irish Times may want to consider what the chart on Ireland's position in the Olympic Medals Table is actually communicating. https://lnkd.in/eHsQ4qVT While caveated with "Lower numbers are better" most people will probably not read this and go straight for the pretty picture where the chart appears to show a poor performance from the Irish team at Paris 2024 - Comité d'organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de 2024 and other recent Olympics. In this case a lower number is a positive as it relates to their medal table rank where Ireland have performed much better than in previous Olympics. Therefore surely flipping to the chart so the lower numbers are at the top would be a much better visualisation and indicate the positive performance the team had compared to previous Olympics.

IT’S NOT HOW FAST! For the 24th year in a row, the US men have failed to deliver a medal of any colour in the 4x100 meter relay in the Olympics! Now we know that this is not due to lack of speed. These athletes are the best the world has to offer and are individually accomplished in their own right. In the just concluded Olympics in Paris, we watched with bated breadth hoping that this talented team would break the jinx and finally deliver a gold medal for the US. That was not to be as the botched handoff between Christian Coleman and Kenny Bednarek caused the team to finish 7th then be disqualified for handing the baton outside the zone. As mentioned, the failures of the team to deliver a medal are not due to lack of speed, these men are incredibly fast! Instead, the failures have been due to timing, handoffs, and getting the right people in the right spots of the relay. The US has also relied for too long in the idea that because they are fast, they will automatically win the race while other countries have taken the time to establish a four-person team that work together in the years between Olympics to establish cohesion and chemistry so that everyone is connected and can deliver when they need to. A case in point is the Canadian Team that won the race.  As witnessed with the American team, the handoffs are everything and will make or break the race. You can have the fastest men on the relay team but if you are unable to pass the baton, the race is over. Your team can be individually great, and can bring their A-Game to work, but if they are unable to collaborate, work as a team and build cohesion, their individual efforts will come to nothing, and the entire team will fail to deliver on its mandate. Its not how fast, it’s how efficiently and effectively a team can deliver as a unit. #teamcohesion #teamsynergies #ParisOlympics #teamUSA

One of the many reasons I accepted the #sportspharmacy consultant position to design, lecture and help launch the most #comprehensive sports pharmacy program (with a #clinicalsportspharmacist embedded with sports medicine/ athlete care!) in the US, is this: https://lnkd.in/gY32VWHz (present and past, a long list of the highest performers in their sports) Maybe some of these athletes took an ibuprofen or allergy pill or cream or any drug that might impact their performance, and for which we must check the status in sport before its used. #Athletes need more Qualified Sports Pharmacist they can look to for help as clean athletes. The stars were aligned with many other key factors, as well, to develop this as International Sports Pharmacists Network partnered with the USC Mann School of Pharmacy: >> Pharmacy Administrative leadership championed the idea, are knowledgeable and share a vision, >>the depth of experience and dedication and awareness of their medical professionals for athletic services, >>the relationship the outpatient pharmacist already had supporting the team, >>the interest of the pharmacy students, >>engagement with other departments, >>willingness to reform structures that had been silos, >>innovation with pharmacy counseling and public interface for the sports pharmacist, >>and more. Its the #hubofsportspharmacy looking ahead to #LA28 #sportspharmacists #sportpharmacy #drugsinsport #athletehealth #medicationsafety #medicationcounseling #pharmacyschool

🏅💰 Curious about Olympian prize money for the Paris Olympics? Check out this insightful article on Forbes to learn more about the medals and cash up for grabs in 2024: [Read more here]: https://lnkd.in/d73rd9Fz #ParisOlympics #Olympics2024 🥇🇫🇷

Back from the Euros: #4 - Stadium Selection & Transport Resilience: England's match in Gelsenkirchen yesterday afternoon will (just about) be remembered positively. As well as the jubilation at the last-minute equaliser and a winner AET, fans seem to have got away OK post-match too. 🎉 By contrast, the opening win against Serbia took place at 9pm local time, and after the game fans reported unacceptably long waits both for the tram back into Gelsenkirchen and then for onward trains. ⌛ When I went to Gelsenkirchen a few days later for Italy-Spain, again for a 9pm k.o., the situation was identical. (Photo from Hbf). 🚉 Some delays are to be expected on matchdays, but there were reasons why, despite DB being a main tournament sponsor and fans having free local travel, logistics have been repeatedly difficult: - Gelsenkirchen's is one of several German stadia built on the edge of cities, outside walking distance from fan zones / arrival points 🚶♀️ - The transport networks connecting the stadia to the city centre are often of limited capacity e.g. Gelsenkirchen's tram which, by definition, can't deviate from its tracks to enable multiple vehicles to load quickly 🚋 - This also reduces resilience (if the track becomes blocked, there's no Plan B) ⛔ - A repeated refrain is 'If the Bundesliga manages it every week, why can't it work at the Euros?' Match timing is one reason - few German games kick off as late as 9pm local, meaning that fans are more likely to wander back into town on foot. If it's closer to midnight, everyone will need to pile onto the last train. ⏲ A couple of simple changes to the scheduling and logistics would likely have made things run a bit smoother: - Selecting the out-of-town stadia e.g. Gelsenkirchen for afternoon games, and inner-city stadia for night matches 🗺 - Laying on extra buses to supplement trams - lower-tech but sometimes needs must... 🚎 #Euro2024 #Transport #Stadia #Events

Japan prohibits Russian bodybuilders to compete in world championship under national flag It will take place in Tokyo between December 16 and 19 MOSCOW, November 11/ The organizational committee of the women’s bodybuilding championship, which will take place in Tokyo between December 16 and 19, decided to authorize Russian athletes to compete only in neutral status under the pressure from Japanese authorities, the Russian Bodybuilding Federation told TASS. "Under the pressure of the Japanese government, the organizational committee of the women’s world championship was forced to make a decision that the Russian national team would be able to compete only in the neutral status, that is, without the flag and the anthem, due to concerns of security in Japan," the federation representative told TASS. "This decision was made at the very last moment, when the Russian national team had already been formed to take part in the world championship. We received the official letter from the International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation (IFBB) citing the Japanese organizational committee only on November 10." In mid-July, the IFBB executive committee decided to authorize Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete in world and Europe championships under national flags and anthems. Before July 2024, Russian athletes could compete under the national flag in all international competitions except for world and Europe competitions, where they were supposed to compete in neutral status only. "The IFBB letter that we received on November 10 points out that, in the future, the right to host world championships will be provided only to countries that adhere to IFBB rules and decisions, and will provide equal competition conditions for all national teams. It is very unpleasant when politics get involved in sports, and, of course, it negatively affects the development of sport. Sport must unite people, not divide them," the representative said. In 2025, the men’s world championship will take place in Saudi Arabia and the women’s championship will take place in China. #business #finance #financialservices

With all due respect to the LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Games the #MilanoCortina2026 are up next so please give all the love and support you have you been giving the Paris2024 games and do the same for #MilanoCortina2026 . LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Games be the next Summer Games and they will be phenomenal but technically Winter Olympics is next up just saying. We all need show the same excitement we have for the summer games and do it for the Winter Games. Someone has to stand up for the Winter Games. With the 2024 Paris Olympics nearly over, focus now shifts to when the next Olympic Games take place. The next Olympics will be the Winter edition, taking place in 2026. Of course, the Winter Games include an entirely different set of sports and events than the Summer Games. The next Summer Olympics will next be hosted in Los Angeles in 2028. The last Winter Olympics took place in Beijing, making it the lone city to host both the Winter and Summer Olympics (it also hosted the 2008 Summer Games). The 2026 Olympics will be co-hosted by two cities in the same country. Here's where the 2026 Winter Olympics will be located: 2026 Winter Olympics location Location: Milan, Cortina d'Ampezzo The 2026 Winter Olympics will be hosted in two cities: Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The site was selected in 2019, when the bidding results ended with the two Italian cities earning the Olympics over Stockholm and Are in Sweden. It will mark the fourth time the Olympics have been held in Italy, following the 1956 Winter Olympics (Cortina d'Ampezzo), 1960 Summer Olympics (Rome) and 2006 Winter Olympics (Turin). #wintergames #itay #MilanoCortina2026 #olympicgames #ioc #upnext #milanocortina2026

BMW Group Announced as Official Sponsor and Mobility Partner of Erste Bank Open BMW has been unveiled as the official sponsor and exclusive mobility partner of the Erste Bank Open, a premier tennis event in Austria. This exciting announcement was made at today’s Erste Bank Open press conference in Vienna, marking BMW’s continued commitment to supporting world-class tennis. “The Erste Bank Open stands for top-class tennis. The outstanding performances of the athletes as well as the euphoric atmosphere in the Wiener Stadthalle are impressive. This joy is contagious — which is why we are very proud to be able to support one of the biggest sporting events in Austria,” said Christian Morawa, CEO […] - https://lnkd.in/gsh8HqTh #automotive #evs #ev #electricmobility #emobility #ebikes #fleets #evfleet #evnews #autonews #electricvehicles #electricvehicle #automotiveindustry #automotivejobs #cleantech #cleanenergy #hydrogen #lithium #evbattery #sustainability #climatechange #activemobility #austria #bmw #europe #partnership #sustainable

The mythology around the boom (and then, well, almost bust) of padel in Sweden following an oversupply of courts is pretty established in the sport's folklore. Hopefully, however, #Sweden is now ‘finding its level’ again, following some high profile padel club closures and consolidations.    We’ve also heard about how other Nordic nations, and the #Netherlands have been en route to join #Italy, #Spain and #Portugal at the #padel party top table.    However, what about the so-called new, emerging big three European padel nations of #France, the #UK and #Germany? Three nations with a proud tennis heritage. Will that collective love of tennis across this combined 219m population translate to padel?   Has the UK’s (in)famous planning system caused a hold up in court builds, as some anecdotally are saying? What about Germany’s renowned regulatory efficiency - is that a help or hindrance when it comes to the sustainable growth of padel? And what about France’s court growth (a country considered ahead of the UK and Germany in their padel journey)?    I understand that next week is the week we get the data! Looking forward to seeing what Pablo Carro’s PLAYTOMIC team conclude in the 2024 #GlobalPadelReport.    It will be a must read. As simple as that.   #playtomicglobalpadelreport #WorldsFastestGrowingSport

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