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. @reveleth.com & @sydney-bauer.com talk about the IOC reinstating genetic testing, the history of gender testing in sports & the policy’s effect on trans & DSD athletes.

+ We celebrate Trans Day of Visibility with former soccer player turned speaker Uncle Fish.

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The return of sex testing in sport risks harming women athletes rather than protecting them The IOC’s new policy mandating genetic sex testing is scientifically flawed, ethically problematic and legally questionable.

The return of sex testing in sport risks harming women athletes rather than protecting them
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Frontiers | Sex testing in women's sport: historical harms, contemporary risks, and World Athletics' 2025 policy shift The history of systemic, mandatory sex testing of all women athletes in sport is now well documented, with hundreds of articles, entire books, and doctoral d...

As part of the Research Topic “Women at the Olympics and Paralympics: Past, Present, and Future,” we had the pleasure of working with María José Martínez-Patiño to examine the impact of new sex testing requirements in athletics on athletes.
Open access here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/spo...

Olympic History and Legacy: New Research in Bidding for and Hosting the Olympic Winter Games Legacy research has grown in the last decade, particularly within the field of sport studies, with numerous books and articles examining the physical, social, and environmental legacies of mega-eve...

(The city was also scheduled to host the 1944 games which were cancelled because of World War II.) See doi.org/10.1080/0952...

Olympic History and Legacy: New Research in Bidding for and Hosting the Olympic Winter Games Legacy research has grown in the last decade, particularly within the field of sport studies, with numerous books and articles examining the physical, social, and environmental legacies of mega-eve...

3 cities have hosted the Winter Olympics more than once: St. Moritz, Suisse (1928/1948), Lake Placid, USA (1932/1980), and Innsbruck, Austria (1964/1976). Next week, Cortina will become the 4th as Cortina D’Ampezzo hosted in 1956 for the first time. #olympics #skystorians #sporthistory

The Winter Olympics: A Century of Games on Ice and Snow The Olympic Winter Games, although younger than their summer counterpart, nonetheless have a long and storied history. From the first iteration in Chamonix, France, in 1924, through the first off-s...

Need an OA refresher on Winter Olympic history? Check this one out, co-authored with @hdichter.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #olympics #skystorians #sporthistory

Pierre de Coubertin only begrudgingly endorsed the 1st ‘official’ winter Olympics (Chamonix 1924) after his good friend and organizer of the Nordic Games, Viktor Balck, retired from the IOC. See Pérez-Aragón & Viuda-Serrano’s paper doi.org/10.1080/0952... #sporthistory #skystorians #friendshipfirst

The Winter Olympics: A Century of Games on Ice and Snow The Olympic Winter Games, although younger than their summer counterpart, nonetheless have a long and storied history. From the first iteration in Chamonix, France, in 1924, through the first off-s...

The Winter Olympics start 7 weeks from today! Want to learn more about their history? Check out this article @wpgsarah.bsky.social & I wrote to open a special issue of @ijhs.bsky.social It’s OA too #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Winter Olympics: A Century of Games on Ice and Snow The Olympic Winter Games, although younger than their summer counterpart, nonetheless have a long and storied history. From the first iteration in Chamonix, France, in 1924, through the first off-s...

Yesterday marked 1 year to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Interested in the Winter Games' history? Check out the @ijhs.bsky.social article @wpgsarah.bsky.social & I wrote (Open Access): "The Winter Olympics: A Century of Games on Ice and Snow" ❄️ 🗃️

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Did you complete a PhD dissertation on any aspect of sport history between Jan 1, 2023 & Dec 31, 2024 or supervise a student who did? If so, consider applying for the NASSH Dissertation Prize before January 31. Details here (quick join if not a member!) www.nassh.org/awards/disse...
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