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Tony Collins is a British social historian specialising in the history of sport. [1] [2]He is emeritus professor of history at De Montfort University, [3] a Research Fellow at the Institute of Sports Humanities, [4] and in 2018 was a visiting professor at Beijing Sports University.
The World's Game: A History of Soccer (1998) Polley, Martin. Sports History: A Practical Guide, Palgrave, 2007. S.Battente, The idea of sport in western culture from antiquity to the contemporary era, Vernon press, 2020. Journals. online article from The Sports Historian 1993-2001; European Studies in Sport History; The International Journal of ...
The Global Politics of Sport: The Role of Global Institutions in Sport 2005; The Disrespect Agenda: Or How the Wrong Kind of Niceness Is Making Us Weak and Unhappy 2008; My Father's Bookcase: A Version of the History of Ideas 2011; Understanding International Sport Organisations: Principles, Power and Possibilities (with Alan Tomlinson) 2017
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed 7 times indoors by two different men since 2000, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2025 with a 6.27 m mark.
The FIFA World Cup, for example, is the world's most widely viewed sporting event; an estimated 700 million people watched the final match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa. [ 8 ] According to a 2011 A.T. Kearney study of sports teams, leagues and federations, the global sports industry is worth between €350 billion and €450 ...
A history and philosophy of sport and physical education: from ancient civilizations to the modern world (McGraw-Hill, 2014) Tsai, Chiung-Tzu Lucetta, and Lijun Zhou. "The history of sports and physical education in China." World leisure journal 59.4 (2017): 326-337. Wagner, Eric A. Sport in Asia and Africa: A Comparative Handbook (Greenwood ...
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History portal; Sports portal; This category should include articles that are the high-level histories of each sport and not articles about specific topics which belong in relevant sub-categories. Note that in many cases the high-level history is in the sport's eponymous article only, pending a decision re creation of a separate history article.