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Australia will be blessed this summer with world-class sporting officials, who often operate under more scrutiny than any single player. EPA/Dave Hunt

‘You cannot be serious!’ A look at this summer’s elite sports officials

Timothy Neville, University of the Sunshine Coast and Paul Salmon, University of the Sunshine Coast

Sports-mad Australians are in the middle of a busy summer of world-class sport. We’re currently gripped by football frenzy as the best players in Asia ply their craft in the Asian Cup. The world’s richest…
Sports officials make judgements in the moment, but are judged in hindsight. How do they meet that challenge? Harris Walker/Flickr

Fair call? What sport can show us about high‑speed decisions

Keith Lyons, University of Canberra

This is the third article in a series, How we make decisions, which explores our decision-making processes. How well do we consider all factors involved in a decision, and what helps and what holds us…

Related Topics

  1. Australian Open 2015
  2. Decision making
  3. English football
  4. FA Cup
  5. FIFA
  6. Football
  7. Premier league
  8. Sport
  9. umpiring decisions

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