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Dr. Thomas Maridada on Advancing Teacher Efficacy to Cultivate Enduring Excellence in Education

Literacy remains central to Maridada's educational vision because he views reading proficiency as foundational to every academic discipline.

International Business Times

Russia’s sporting return on hold for inquiry into official’s alleged role in doping cover-up

The World Anti-Doping Agency is looking into allegations that Russia’s head of anti-doping was involved in the covering up of drug test results at Sochi 2014

The Guardian - UK

IOC lifts Olympic ban on Belarus' athletes but Russians still barred from competiton

The IOC executive board released a statement saying that it "no longer recommends any restrictions on the participation of Belarusian athletes, including teams."

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PUBG Nations Cup 2026 heads back to Seoul: Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Finland join the roster

PUBG Nations Cup 2026 returns to Seoul with 24 nations competing.

Dot Esports

The IOC’s decision to protect the female category is a victory for fairness

Trans and DSD athletes must be treated with respect, and the new testing regime must be run with sensitivity. But this is a step forward, says Guardian sports writer Tanya Aldred

The Guardian - UK

The Olympics’ trans policy polices womanhood

Sports bans have humiliated trans women and girls across America. Now, the Olympics joins in

The Guardian - US

International Olympic Committee Allows Transgender Athletes to Compete After Initial Ban

For their part, transgender athletes who are biologically male and meet qualification standards will be able to compete in the male category.

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Sir Craig Reedie obituary

Olympic administrator who helped secure the Games for London in 2012 and stood up to Russia over doping

The Guardian - UK

‘Disgraceful’: anger as World Aquatics allows Russia to compete under flag again

Ukrainian skeleton star Vladyslav Heraskevych expressed disbelief and said the sports body is acting as if the brutal war does not exist

The Guardian - UK

Darts star ‘retired’ by new rules banning transgender players in women’s events

The Darts Regulation Authority has decided transgender women cannot compete in women’s events.

The Independent UK

Russia to give cash payments to athletes banned from Winter Olympics

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The Independent UK

Russia to compensate athletes unable to compete at Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics

13 Russian and Belarusian athletes passed an IOC vetting process to compete at Milano-Cortina

The Independent UK

Sir Craig Reedie, key London 2012 Olympics figure and former BOA chair, dies aged 84

Sir Craig Reedie, a giant of the Olympic movement, who served as chair of the British Olympic Association for more than a decade and was instrumental in bringing the Games to London in 2012, has died at the age of 84

The Guardian - UK

Chang Ung, North Korean ex-IOC member who brokered Olympic joint marches with South, dies

Chang Ung, a former North Korean member of the International Olympic Committee who once led sports exchanges with rival South Korea including joint marches of their athletes at the Olympics, has died at 87

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The Conversation

Is the Fitzroy River a suitable venue for the Brisbane Olympics, given it’s home to crocodiles?

Quite a few crocodile tears have been shed on the issue of the rowing and canoeing venue of the 2032 Brisbane Olympics and Paralympics.

The Conversation

The return of sex testing in sport risks harming women athletes rather than protecting them

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced a new policy on the protection of the women’s category that will force thousands of elite women athletes from around the world to undergo genetic sex testing in order to compete.

The Mary Sue

Olympics Make a Disappointing Decision for the Los Angeles Games

A generalization that hurts all women.

The Conversation

Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth

The International Olympic Committee announced a new policy on March 26, 2026, for women’s competitions: Every athlete must be tested for a gene called SRY, usually found on the Y chromosome. Males typically have a Y chromosome and females typically don’t, so the IOC says this requirement will exclude “biological…

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France calls Olympic gender testing a 'step backwards' as other nations support policy

France on Friday called the International Olympic Committee's new policy on gender testing to determine eligibility to compete in women's events a "step backwards", but other countries welcomed the move.

The Independent UK

Human rights experts raise concerns over IOC gender eligibility ruling

The Sport & Rights Alliance, along with over 100 other allied organisations, has called on the IOC to abandon its plans to mandate genetic sex testing

Euronews

Transgender women athletes banned from competing in female Olympic events in new IOC policy

The IOC announced the ban on Thursday after its executives voted to adopt the new policy. The ruling now means transgender women, as well as women with select rare medical conditions, are no longer eligible to compete in female categories, effective from the 2028 LA games.

The Independent UK

Inside Kirsty Coventy’s transformation of the IOC – and the Trump problem looming over the LA Olympics

ONE YEAR ON: A year after she was sensationally elected as the first woman and first African to hold the most powerful office in sport, the IOC president retains plenty of internal support, writes Lawrence Ostlere. But far bigger challenges lie ahead

The Conversation

The Olympics’ transgender athlete ban is a legal and moral minefield

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed it is introducing a controversial new policy that will ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s events.

The Guardian - AU

Human rights experts raise concerns over Olympics transgender women athlete ban

Over 100 human rights, sports and scientific groups have criticised the new gender eligibility guidelines as ‘a blunt and discriminatory response’

Pedestrian.tv

IOC Bans Trans Women From Competing In All Future Olympics Over Apparent Safety Concerns

The IOC will require a gene test for women’s events at the Olympics, a move critics say effectively bans most trans women from competing.

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