Norway's youth sports model is super unique: • No scorekeeping until age 13 • Participation trophies for everyone • No travel teams or national championships • No online publishing of scores or athlete rankings • Parents typically spend less than $1,000 per child per year The result? A 93% participation rate — 40 points higher than the U.S. — and more Winter Olympic medals than any other country in history, despite Norway having a population comparable to the Philadelphia metro area (5.6 million). And it's not just winter sports... Norway now produces some of the world’s best summer sport athletes, including Erling Haaland (soccer), Casper Ruud (tennis), Viktor Hovland (golf), and Jakob Ingebrigtsen (track and field). So if you want to learn more about how Norway's youth sports system actually works (and what other countries can learn from it), here's an essay I recently wrote during the Winter Olympics that breaks it all down. READ: huddleup.substack.com/p/how-…

Take a deep dive into the past present and future of the inspiring journey of Adam Drummond as part of National Disability in Sport Week. ▪️How a hospital visit from one of the current Irish coaching staff sparked his own coaching journey. ▪️Early challenges of coaching able-bodied sport as a wheelchair user and overcoming them. ▪️His coaching philosophy and not believing in cones. ▪️A big decision coming up. Read in full ➡️ bit.ly/3Xt2f2b @sportireland | #IrishBasketball

This was a great conversation I had with @adamdrum09 on his love affair with basketball and his commitment to the sport in all its forms ahead of his international competitive debut for Ireland at the European Championships, Division C this week

If this is the alleged incident….then Get him out the ground and ban him for life! Racism is absolutely vile! No place for it in this world!