Every week, an average of three in every ten adolescent elite athletes suffer an injury. Worst affected are young women, and the risk of injury increases with low self-esteem, especially in combination with less sleep and higher training volume and intensity, research from in Sweden shows.
An ongoing longitudinal study tracking national coverage of women's sports finds that coverage is still lacking and the sexism of women's sports is less overt but remains a problem.
A new scientific study has found that doping is far more common in professional sport than the rates suggested by blood and urine tests of the athletes.
Racial stereotypes affect the public's perception of NFL quarterbacks and may, in some cases, become a self-fulfilling prophecy for black athletes, new research shows.
Computer scientists used machine learning and data science to analyze the salaries of professional football players. A computational model was developed to show the world's most overpaid and underpaid players, and to identify skills that can earn footballers more Euros.