Why Qualifications at the Olympics?

Pistorious at the Olympics: the saga continues.

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games will take place in London, from 27 July to 12 August. The most important sport competition in the world shapes up to be unprecedented in the overall number of participants, finally including ‘the fastest man on no legs’, Oscar Pistorious. Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius was born in 1986 in South Africa with congenital absence of the fibula in both legs that were amput...

Medical services at the Olympics: a monumental challenge.

Kenyan team care at the Special Olympics--1991.

The Kenyan team that competed at the International Summer Special Olympics comprised 38 athletes (both men and women) selected from all competitors at the national championships. The team was examined and a physiological fitness test carried out. The results enabled the organizers to arrange for treatment of prevailing illnesses, and the training programme was adjusted to the athletes' level. T...

(Im-)Mobile policies: Why sustainability went wrong in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi

This paper proposes a tripartite framework of transportation, transformation and translation to conceptualise the circulation, mutation and impacts of mobile policies as translocal, socio-material networks. Drawing on material from semi-structured interviews, participant observation and documents it considers the value of this framework by examining the mobility of the sustainability agenda of ...

Why Is The Identification of Causative Agent of Nocardiosis Essential at The Species Level?

[No Abstract] Nocardia is a genus of weakly gram-positive, filamentous, aerobic, relatively slow-growing and partially acid-fast bacteria. These bacteria are ubiquities in environmental resources such as water, soil, dust, decomposing animal feces, and vegetables. This group of bacteria can enter the human body through inhalation and traumatic cutaneous inoculation and cause Nocardia infection...