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Why Physical Activity Promotion Policy Isn’t Helping the Fight Against Cancer… Or Why I’m Joining Cancer Research UK’s Dryathlon

PLEASE SUPPORT CANCER RESEARCH UK: CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT MY DRYATHLON Think of research into cancer and the image that comes to mind is of laboratory based research into the biological processes that cause or that might cure cancer, but the … Continue reading

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Blame the Data and Remove the Goalposts – How to Mask National Olympic Legacy Policy Failings!

In Singapore in 2005, Lord Coe, the Chair of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, secured the 2012 Games for London with a bid presentation including a promise to inspire a new generation to choose sport.  … Continue reading

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Delivering or Demonstrating a London 2012 Sporting Legacy?

From the ambitions of the final bid presentation that secured the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games for London in Singapore in 2005, through the legacy promises made in the previous Labour government’s legacy action plan published in 2008, to the … Continue reading

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