Visiting Professor of Sport Science, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (Retired)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined February 2010
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John D. Horne retweeted
Thank you for submitting your audition for the next series of #LineofDuty but we’re looking for a character with at least one redeeming moral principle and a performance that places even just a scintilla of doubt in the audience’s mind that he might not be totally bent
The media have picked up on “women” as one topic at Tokyo 2020, partly because of the opening ceremony.
For background see Robin Kietlinski’s Japanese Women and Sport, in the Globalizing Sport Studies series, published by Bloomsbury Academic:
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John D. Horne retweeted
#TRENDS Research & Advisory publishes an insight entitled: "The Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics: A Regrettable and Forgettable Covid Games?" By: Dr. John Horne
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#covid_19
#Knowledge_Empowers_Future
John D. Horne retweeted
Arcuri received £126,000 of taxpayer money during her affair with Johnson. It appears Hancock gave deals to Coladangelo’s relatives. This, in addition to contracts and vast amounts of public money being handed to Tory mates. This is not a sex scandal - it’s a corruption scandal.
John D. Horne retweeted
“The criticism by athletes and elsewhere matter -will leave a mark on these Olympics impossible to remove” “Say there is a spike in Covid cases as a result of the Olympics, that will be devastating”. Says Olympic scholar John Horne @Blake_EssigCNN
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人々の命と暮らしを守るために、#東京五輪の開催中止を求めます #StopTokyoOlympic - Sign the Petition! chng.it/jrrWbgnj via @UKChange
John D. Horne retweeted
"And I guess I do believe as a scholar, as a writer, as a voice, that there are certain obligations that fall on people like myself. And one of them is to offer shards of hope, even in the teeth of things that seem intractable." @bungatuffie lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-video…
John D. Horne retweeted
As it’s revealed Donald Trump went 10 years without paying income tax, experts say it would be hugely embarrassing if this tweet were to resurface:
Martina says teapawt.org/Martina/status/1304906…
Social justice and sports do mix - and quite nicely- congratulations @naomiosaka !!! #USOpen2020 Champion!!!
Inside the troubling legacy of displacing poor communities for the Olympic Games — and one village’s resistance in Brazil washingtonpost.com/magazine/…
John D. Horne retweeted
What bidding process? You mean the secretive discussions going on behind the scenes? – at Poplar, London
The postponement of @Tokyo2020 will not affect the bidding process for future #Olympics says @iocmedia official
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