On June 11 th , the best soccer players from around the world will meet in South Africa at the FIFA 2010 World Cup. To reach this level of competition, these players combine phenomenal ball-handling skills with three major characteristics: fast sprinting, rapid reaction times, and ferocious tenacity. This issue's Cell Culture explores these three athletic qualities from a molecular and cellular...

Sport video is an important video genre. Content-based sports video analysis attracts great interest from both industry and academic fields. A sports video is characterised by repetitive temporal structures, relatively plain contents, and strong spatio-temporal variations, such as quick camera switches and swift local motions. It is necessary to develop specific techniques for content-based spo...

The purpose of this study is to examine whether mega-sport events influence visitors' destination images and explore which factors their perceptions intentions attend a event in certain destinations. We the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship France, 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, upcoming 2022 Qatar through structured questionnaire published on Facebook group Camp Sweden, community Swedish f...