NEWS UPDATE Glaxo launches sports science lab
Edinburgh wins National Performance Centre bid
The Scottish government has chosen Edinburgh as the city to host the new £30m National Performance Centre for Sport (NPCS). To be located at the Riccarton Campus of Heriot-Watt University, the NPCS will support the high performance needs for football, rugby and volleyball while offering additional dedicated support to athletics, badminton, basketball, cricket, fencing, handball, hockey, netball, shinty and squash. Te centre is expected to be fully operational by 2016 with construction due to start later this year. Edinburgh was chosen from a shortlist of
three, with bids from Dundee City Council and a joint bid from Stirling Council and the University of Stirling losing out in the final stage. Deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon said the government had accepted an unanimous recommendation from the NPCS Steering Group. “Te Heriot-Watt and City of Edinburgh
Council team presented an inspiring vision,” she said. “It clearly demonstrated a positive commitment to developing high performance and a strong focus on part- nership. I am confident they will deliver an iconic project, in a great setting, that takes Scottish sport onto a new level. Details:
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Pharmaceut ic al giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has opened the GSK Human Performance Lab – a sports science facility that will look to “deepen the understanding of human performance”. GSK will work in partner-
ship with elite individuals and organisations – professional athletes and teams as well as sports national governing bodies – to better understand how the body and brain func- tion. Confirmed partners that will work with GSK at the cen- tre include Olympic gold and bronze medalists Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee, British Triathlon, F1 rac- ing franchise McLaren and boxer Amir Khan. Facilities at the centre, located at GSK’s
GSK will look to work in partnership with elite clubs and individuals It is hoped that research carried out at the
global HQ in Brentford, include a swim flume, a 4G artificial turf area and running track for speed and agility testing. Tere is also an environmental chamber
capable of producing conditions ranging from -20C to +50C degrees; humidity levels of between 10 and 90 per cent and oxygen lev- els equal to those at 5,500m altitude.
centre will help scientists develop improved training, recovery, nutrition and competition programmes for its partners. Once research has been carried out, GSK
also aims to apply the innovative science to improve the wellbeing of the general pop- ulation by informing the development of new products. Te initial studies at the cen- tre will focus on cognition and bone health. Details:
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Sharp increase in Welsh school sport
Tere has been a 50 per cent increase in the number of Welsh school children who regularly take part in sport and physical activity. The figure comes from
An artist’s impression of the new Sixfields stand
Northampton stadium ‘biggest thing ever’ for club’
Northampton Town FC chair David Cardoza has said plans to redevelop the club’s Sixfields Stadium are “the biggest thing which has ever happened to the club.” A planning application was submitted
on 10 October, with the plans including an expanded west stand and a complete redevelopment of the east stand, with new corporate boxes and a conference centre. If planning permission is granted, work
could begin as early as February 2014 and- would give Sixfields a capacity of 10,000. Details:
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Sport Wales’ School Sport Survey, which interviewed 110,000 pupils from nearly 1,000 schools across the country. Of those surveyed, the number of children tak- ing part in physical activity at least three times a week rose from 27 per cent in 2011 to 40 per cent in 2013. Results also show that 91
Te report shows 91 per cent of Welsh children enjoy school sport
per cent of children enjoy school sport and that School remains the most important place in which children learn the competence and confidence to participate in physical activity. Despite the increase, however, there was no
signs of the gap between the number of boys and girls playing sport closing. Boys (44 per cent) were still more likely than
girls (36 per cent) to regularly participate in sport and physical activity.
8 Read Sports Management online
sportsmanagement.co.uk/digital Commenting on the survey results, Sport
Wales chair, professor Laura McAllister said: “Tese excellent figures show what is possi- ble when the sport and education sectors work together. Tey also help us understand how to encourage tomorrow’s generation to participate more in sport and physical activity. But there are still challenges ahead and we need to build upon the success that we are creating uniquely in Wales.” Details:
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