Sporty is your guide to the powerful place of sport and fitness in Australia’s cultural life. Recognising it’s much more than a game, Sporty charts and analyses big-time spectator sports, celebrates the amateur athlete and encourages anyone struggling to get active. You don’t have to get sport, to get Sporty!
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Saturday 18 May 2019
Concussion on the sports field hasn't always been taken seriously. What are the consequences?
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Saturday 11 May 2019
Getting into the great outdoors bushwalking and camping is great, but hard to do if you have a serious physical disability. So what would a weekend camp designed to take wheelchair users off the beaten track be like?
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Saturday 4 May 2019
Walking is officially Australia's number one physical activity, but is it enough for your health and fitness?
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Saturday 27 Apr 2019
Two very different personal stories of lives lived in devotion to a physical discipline.
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Saturday 20 Apr 2019
What is ethically wrong with doping in sport?
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Saturday 13 Apr 2019
How does doing something physically active help soothe whatever's raging in your head?
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Saturday 6 Apr 2019
Do some people avoid being physically active because they register pain more acutely than others?
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Saturday 30 Mar 2019
Sport divides into competition for men and for women. But not everyone fits neatly into these categories. And not everyone agrees who belongs where.
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Saturday 16 Mar 2019
Everyone's heard of 'muscle memory'. But nobody agrees on what, precisely, it is.
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Saturday 9 Mar 2019
What was your first time on a bicycle like? Terrifying? Exhilarating? A thrilling mix of both?
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Saturday 2 Mar 2019
How has skateboarding gone from wayward street culture to mainstream Olympic sport?
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Saturday 23 Feb 2019
Is high intensity interval training for you? How do you know if the sport you're watching is free from cheating and corruption?
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Saturday 16 Feb 2019
Does learning how to lose in sport help you cope with failure in life?
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Saturday 9 Feb 2019
For Valentine's Day, give your own heart some love, with exercise. It's possible to protect against heart failure and even reverse damage if you do it by a certain age.
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Saturday 2 Feb 2019
What does it take to run a big sports league or competition these days? Parkrun is currently the biggest mass participation sporting activity in the world. What's the appeal?
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Saturday 26 Jan 2019
For adults, learning to swim is difficult and scary. How do you overcome a deep fear of water?
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