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York experts have got you covered for Paris Olympics

While the Olympics are a show of international friendship and athletic excellence, they are also about politics and diplomacy, tourism, social change and spectacle, and sometimes even espionage. York experts are available to give comment to media on everything from nationalism in sport and why the economic pressures on athletes are getting even worse, to branding and tourism opportunities, the evolution of women’s basketball in Canada and how large sporting events intersect with sex tourism and displacement of low-income people, and more.  

Performance-enhancing… research? New measurement could help elite athletes: York U

TORONTO, October 4, 2016 – Canadian Olympic phenomenon Penny Oleksiak may be able to glide through the water even faster at her next Olympic Games, due in part to a new measurement tool invented by York University researchers. “We asked ourselves the basic question: ‘how does liquid spread on a surface?’, be it Penny’s swimsuit […]