Athletes

With athletes at the ‘Youthful’ Olympics as young as 11 years old, more needs to be done to protect young people in sport from any kind of abuse

From swimming to shot put, biomechanics can identify key physiological traits that contribute to athletic success in Olympic sports

As we head into the Paris Olympics, the mental health of elite athletes is finally becoming less stigmatised and that can only be a good thing

An ultra-marathon runner is training in a research refrigerator with a team of engineers ahead of a 230-kilometre Arctic race

Cricketers, on the verge of scoring a century, are often described as being in the ‘nervous nineties’ – a new study uses data to sort fact from fiction

There are far too many recent examples of athletes facing abuse in sport. If we don’t change the structure and culture within sport, it will keep happening

The bodies that oversee international sports, like FIFA and the IOC, need an overhaul to create an even and fair playing field

Researchers are helping explain how the human brain can accurately predict where a fast-moving object will end up. And why some are better at it than others

Meet Australian swimmers Cameron McEvoy and Kyle Chalmers – one is lean, the other is big. How their different body shapes will decide the 100m freestyle showdown at the Rio Olympics.