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Learning Centre

Welcome to our learning centre. As Canada's sport information resource centre we can appreciate your initiative to learn more about certain sport issues. Whether you are looking to refine your skills as a volunteer coach or are participating as administrative staff for a new community organization, our learning centre is here for you to explore.

We have put together articles that will bring facts, fun and news into your realm of sports information. Our learning centre is designed to help you grow, understand and enjoy one sport in particular or the large family of sports available.

Lexicons

• Sport Canada Sport Lexicon
  The Sport Canada Sport Lexicon is intended to provide an easy source of sport-related terminology in both official langages of Canada.

Did you know...

• Did you know a successful event is all in the marketing?
  Trends, strategies, and issues in sport-event tourism
• Did you know ski resorts can be shades of green?
  Cross-cultural tourist behaviour: an analysis of tourist attitudes towards the environment
• Did you know laughter is the best medicine?
  Laugh yourself fit: why you should get a daily dose of humor: jest for the health of it
• Did you know science is more than an experiment in sport?
  Does science make a difference?
• Did you know a healthy mom = a healthy baby?
  Exercise may cut pregnancy-related risks
• Did you know 8 simple exercises could make you more powerful?
  These exercises are an excellent way to build strength and stamina simultaneously
• Did you know CHEW is looking out for you?
  Checklists of Health Promotion Environments at Worksites (CHEW): development and measurement characteristics
• Did you know what you do in the first hours after an injury make a big difference?
  Acute injury treatment: how to use ice and compression
• Did you know it takes 40% goal setting, 50% motivation, and only 10% ability to develop and athlete?
  Mental drills for athletes
• Did you know drills can help you keep a "speedy mindset"?
  Maintaining year-round speed: exercises and drills to make you stronger and faster