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Is English Cricket Racist? / Head Injuries in Female Sport / The Battle Against Weight Shaming in Young Athletes

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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The Importance of Weighting in Sports

England has announced that they're going to ban the weighing of children at its clubs. Weight is less significant than it is in cycling and running, for instance. But also the fact that that is so prevalent because it doesn't seem like it's something that you would necessarily measure massively in swimming. We are looking for performance capabilities, not body composition.

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