Sport set to reckon with impacts of climate change, and encouraged to act now
By Tracey Holmes for The Ticket and ABC Sport
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Bushfires in 2019 and 2020 made conditions hazardous at sporting events in Australia.
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Sports globally are reckoning with the impacts of climate change, no longer seen as an issue far off in the distance but one that is being felt today.
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At present, the Federal Government s National Sports Plan does not address climate change
A new report suggests Australia s summer leagues and codes are particularly threatened by the impacts of climate change
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Special CGF taskforce set to organise Birmingham 2022 boxing tournament Thursday, 18 February 2021
A special taskforce is set to be established to oversee the boxing tournament at next year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Boxing is a core sport of the Commonwealth Games and has featured in every edition since the first British Empire Games at Hamilton in Canada in 1930.
The International Boxing Association (AIBA), which was founded in 1946, has helped organise the tournament since Auckland 1950.
But, following its suspension by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) because of claims of mismanagement and corruption in June 2019, there are doubts over whether it has the authority to be in charge of the event at Birmingham 2022.
Ama Agbeze and Geoff Thompson join Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games board
Ama Agbeze captained England to Commonwealth gold in 2018 (Nigel French/PA)
Former international athletes Ama Agbeze and Geoff Thompson have been appointed to the board of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Agbeze captained Team England’s netballers to Commonwealth gold at the Gold Coast 2018 Games, while Thompson is five-time former world karate champion.
Their appointments by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden follow concerns over a lack of diversity among the event’s leadership.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, pictured, has appointed Ama Agbeze and Geoff Thompson to the board of the Birmingham 2022 organising committee (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)