Thailand’s Formula 1 ambitions – revving up a pipe dream?

By Saksith Saiyasombut On Sunday the Formula One World Championship made its first annual stop in Southeast Asia with the Grand Prix of Malaysia near Kuala Lumpur. A night race on the streets of Singapore will be the other race in the region later this year in September. Even though the 2012 calendar is filled...

IUM students go to the Olympics

IUM students go to the Olympics

Reporting from London, professor Moïse LOUISY-LOUIS

In this Olympic year, London most likely represents the apex in the career of an athlete. In addition to athletic performance, London also hosts some of the world’s leading experts in the sports industry. This fact could not be ignored by IUM students enrolled in the Master in Sustainable Peace through Sport (MSPS) and in the Master in Sport Business Management (MSBM) who met some of these experts while on a 3-day trip to London (from January 22 to 25) to bridge course material discussed in class and practical experience.

71 years young: Japan’s oldest Olympian rides again

It’s a hard life as a pro-sportsman. Your career usually begins before you leave high school and is over before you hit 30, at which point you resign yourself to a life sponsoring energy bars and speaking at anti-drug meets. But Olympic equestrian hero, Hiroshi Hoketsu, isn’t letting any of that stop him. The septuagenarian...

Loyalist Post-Graduate Programs Put Finishing Touch on Résumés

(Originally published December 2011) By:  Marilyn Warren, Marketing, Loyalist College Many university graduates are finding that employers are looking for practical skills and experience in addition to a degree. To fill this void on their résumés they are enrolling in post-graduate programs at Loyalist College, gaining hands-on experience and building professional networks as they obtain...

Bharat Ratna for Tendulkar – only if liberalization is ushered in the arena

The National Rifle Association of India has stirred the Hornet’s Nest by recommending that Abhinav Bindra, India’s only individual Olympic gold medalist be conferred the Bharat Ratna – India’s highest civilian award. Not to let the opportunity slip by, Bindra reported to be training in Germany, threw his hat in the ring saying that it...