A documentary called Frontline talks about previous football players with CTE and the consequences dealing with it. It also talks about the science behind CTE and why the brain does what it does. This documentary shows the importance of monitoring head impacts in high contact sports.

Certain sports get overshadowed by others while being aired on TV. For example hockey is always broadcasted showing both women’s or men’s depending on the day. On the other hand figure skating never gets showed on TV even if it’s the biggest competition for the sport.

In 2024, I was able to participate in the Canada Games for pairs skating. It was a great experience uniting lots of sports together in one space to create an environment to make friends. This shows unity through sport that was talked about in class.

Just like Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, the Whitby Sports Complex in Ontario is also going to be a non-carbon facility. With these new arenas being built or already built it starts a transition to helping the environment in a positive way incorporating energy efficient designs.

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In 2022 Winter Olympic a russian figure skater for a doping violation involving trimetazidine. While she was competing there is a theory that she did not know that it was an illegal doping drug as she was 15 and her coaches were giving it to her. This ultimately led to her being banned from olympics

Here is an article about everything Matthew Tkachuk played with while the Florida Panthers went on to win the 2025 Stanley Cup.
www.nhl.com/news/matthew...

In the NHL Jessica Campbell challenged the gender norm of only male coaches are capable of coaching men’s professional sports programs. She became the first NHL Assistant Coach coaching for the Seattle Kraken.
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Bryan Trottier is a Canadian Indigenous person from Saskatchewan. He is in the NHL hockey hall of fame playing his career for the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins. H ethnicity is Cree Métis.

In my future I would like to be a physical trainer. The job itself requires you to be physically active. By being a trainer you also have lots of opportunities to sports teams. With the access to sports teams it allows myself to be sports involved. So in my future my physical activity will be great.

Most recreational organizations are making the Respect and Sport training mandatory. It helps keep bullying and abuse out of the sports children are playing, keeping them and everyone around them safer. The article is about coaches point of view on the training.

thesportjournal.org/article/coac...

The theory that is being used is the Feminist Theory. It talks about how Jessica Campbell became the first woman coach in the NHL and the comments she faced with becoming a coach.

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I would define a sport as an activity that requires a physical aspect that requires a certain skill set and physical activity. Like discussed in class you can have competitive and recreational sports. Both consist of completing a certain set of skills and physical activity, therefore being a sport.