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Les mythes sur les talents sportifs prodigieux peuvent nous amener à négliger des athlètes moins évidents. Si seulement nous pouvions éviter nos préjugés, nous serions peut-être en mesure de repérer la prochaine grande star. ....
The biases that make us underrate underdogs By William Park 4th August 2021 Myths about prodigious sporting talents might mean that we overlook less obvious athletes. If we could only avoid our biases, we might be able to spot the next big star. W Jacobs held off runners from nations with a much greater history of producing sprinters. The 26-year-old also did it in his second-choice sport. While he competed as a sprinter as a teenager, he discovered long-jump in his late teens and only switched to the 100m as an adult in 2018. He is also not a sprinter with a particular record for fast times – he recorded his first sub-10-second race only earlier this year. ....
Photograph By Murray Mitchell/The Daily News It may only be $70 or so a year, but a tuition increase approved by TRU s board Thursday adds one more brick to the already heavy load students carry, says the school s student union. Nathan Lane, the executive director of the Thompson Rivers University Student Union local 15, said he thinks the board of governors made the wrong choice approving a two-per-cent across-the-board tuition increase. We need a tuition freeze and a rollback, Lane said. We think this is the wrong direction for institutions to be heading. The board approved the increase largely to fund higher costs related to the progression of staff through previously negotiated wage grids. ....
“It’s been unfortunate that COVID hit this year and they weren’t able to have the kinds of celebrations they were hoping to have,” Barnsley told KTW in December. “I would have loved to have gone back and wandered around the campus.” During his tenure as president, Barnsley oversaw myriad changes at TRU, most notably acquiring university status in the mid-2000s along with the establishment of many new buildings and programs. In the 10 years since he’s been gone, Barnsley said he has watched as the university has accomplished much more, from a growing student population to expanding opportunities for Indigenous students, and from a commitment to climate change and sustainability to even more new buildings and programs. ....