history of sport – Marilia Coutinho

Strength sports memory in Brazil: an Oral History Project

We finally got tired of knocking on government agencies’ doors offering the project. It has obvious public interest, but let’s face it: we’re days from one of the most obscene events in Brazilian sports History, the World Cup in Brazil. Apart from the fact that there is ample technical and scientific evidence as to the […]

Powerlifting Watch: the need for an ecumenical space for a multi-federation Sport

Deixe um comentário / Entidades, federation wars, levantamento de peso, powerlifting, Sem categoria, treinamento de força, weightlifts / Por wpunl

Powerlifting is a multi-federation sport. That means it has multiple governing or sanctioning bodies. While this is an inevitable trend (and, as I argue, a healthy one) in non-Olympic sports, the existence of a neutral, ecumenical space is important to preserve the sport itself, to promote critical decision making by members of the community

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