Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

Time to get off the literacy lobotomy train - Newsroom - great read to start 2025. Big problems with functional illiteracy, decline of reading for its own sake and what this means long term. NZ needs to act to address this. Charter schools not the answer. newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/27/tim…

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On Saturday 31 July 1976, nine athletes from eight nations lined up in the 1500m final at the Montreal Olympic Games. This is an event in which New Zealand has a remarkable history. Forty years earlier, at Adolf Hitler’s Olympic Games in Berlin, 1936, New Zealander Jack Lovelock

🚨 Come and Join Us 🚨UON Exercise & Sports Science Lecturer in Clinical Exercise Physiology (Level B) - expertise in musculoskeletal rehabilitation, or management of cancer, mental health, ageing or neurological conditions highly regarded. Closes: 20/2/2025 👇 bit.ly/3Cwcj3j

Our latest paper from Sport Science & Human Performance, Wintec documenting GI symptoms in elite and recreational equestrians in training and competition

Resharing this for some start of the week reading. For those interested in #GIsymptoms in sport, or you're an equestrian yourself...

Here’s a bit about what we’ve been up to with NZTR jockeys and their new elite programme, with jumps jockeys new to the licensing fitness ‘stable’ too. wintec.ac.nz/about-wintec/n…

Role of the nasal cavity as a perception site of environmental humidity via a menthol-sensitive cold reception mechanism sciencedirect.com/science/articl… - looks a really interesting read this one

Great to chat to Lukas for DER SPIEGEL on all things menthol, and how it might improve performance in the Bundesliga and elsewhere - spiegel.de/fitness/japani…