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Olympics 2024 shows the untapped potential of female athletes

With each Olympic Games athletes are expected to break new records. Sport science experts have been speculating for years whether we are reaching the limits of human ability. But they may be overlooking the fields where there’s untapped potential: women’s sports.

Jessica Pinchbeck, Lecturer in Sport and Fitness, and Candice Lingam-Willgoss, Senior Lecturer in Sport & Fitness, The Open University

August 27, 2024

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Olympics 2024 shows the untapped potential of female athletes

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Technology creates a thousand futures, culture determines which one we take

Why changemakers of the future will build their movement on blockchain

“It is about experience” — Bharat Krymo on how tech will converge to create the next social paradigm

Amidst financial crisis, crypto is empowering women in Latin America

Here’s why teachers are taking their students into the metaverse

Defining the metaverse — and problems with the media that write about it

Why Elon Musk and top AI researchers have called to pause ‘giant AI experiments’

Web3 will define a new generation of subcultures

How charities are using the metaverse to reach donors and those in need

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Olympics 2024 shows the untapped potential of female athletes

Society

Technology creates a thousand futures, culture determines which one we take

Why changemakers of the future will build their movement on blockchain

“It is about experience” — Bharat Krymo on how tech will converge to create the next social paradigm

Amidst financial crisis, crypto is empowering women in Latin America

Here’s why teachers are taking their students into the metaverse

Defining the metaverse — and problems with the media that write about it

Why Elon Musk and top AI researchers have called to pause ‘giant AI experiments’

Web3 will define a new generation of subcultures

How charities are using the metaverse to reach donors and those in need

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