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Senior Lecturer in Law, Staffordshire University; British Gymnastics Senior Coach / Assessor / Tutor
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About Kris
Kris is a Senior Lecturer, and Co-Director of the Centre for International Sports Law (CISL) at Staffordshire University, UK. He originally trained and competed as an elite gymnast until a shoulder injury at university forced him to retire as an active competitor. He now spends his spare time coaching Trampolining, Gymnastics, DMT, Cheerleading, Parkour and anything that involves throwing yourself through the air with various degrees of twist and rotation!
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About Jon
Jon is an Associate Professor, and Co-Director of the Centre for International Sports Law (CISL) at Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia. Jon worked as a climbing guide, trained and coordinated search and rescue, managed risk and sales in the United States with a European-based manufacturer of outdoor equipment and advised recreation programmes on their exposure to legal risk. His extra-curricular background is just as diverse and includes stints playing semi-pro volleyball in Brazil, researching wolves in the Canadian Rockies, climbing and leading expeditions from Alaska to Argentina, Tajikistan to the Tetons, and many points in between. He has been married to Wendy for 15 years and together they have 2 wonderful kids – Tegan (10) and Brock (8) – whom he continues to emotionally scar as their football coach!
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Next you’ll be saying you cant tell someone to stop running like a girl!!!!!
February 22, 2009
Broadcasting & Media, discrimination
Source:
http://sports.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090128.wsptpansy28/GSStory/GlobeSportsHockey/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090128.wsptpansy28
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http://sports.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090130.wsptcherry29/GSStory/GlobeSportsHockey/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090130.wsptcherry29
Mike Milbury (a commentator on popular CBC show – Hockey Night in Canada) has offended homosexuals by describing how stopping fighting in the NHL was akin to ‘pansification’.
Jeff KEay (network spokesman for the channel) has said that neither Milbury nor his fellow commentators intended to cause offence and instead argued that the colloquial use of the term has meant that the word is much more acceptable in today’s society!
This seems an argument that CBC are destined to lose. Just as Carol Thatcher got into trouble for allegedly referring to a black player as a ‘golliwog’ (see post below), so Milbury’s phrase is equally wrong. Yes, I know what he intended to say – that reducing hockey to a gentle mild-mannered non-contact sport would be wrong, and yes I know the term ‘pansy’ is in the common vernacular, but that does not make it any more acceptable. Free speech is one thing, but using this phrase, not once but repeatedly, seems rather ill-judged.
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