Tennis & Olympic Sports

Diana Morales

Covers tennis and Olympic sport, with a soft spot for the training systems behind individual excellence.

Articles by Diana Morales

Olympics • ioc • skateboarding

5 days ago

The IOC process behind adding an Olympic sport is more political than technical, and the same host-city rule that let breaking...

Olympics • altitude training • distance running

1 week ago

Why elite distance runners cluster in Iten and Addis Ababa, and what published hemoglobin and VO2max studies behind altitude...

Olympics • norway • winter olympics

2 weeks ago

Norway topped the 2026 Winter Olympics medal table with a nation of 5.5 million, built on a policy that bans ranking children's...

Tennis • atp tour • sinner

1 month ago

Sinner and Alcaraz did not just inherit the Big Three's trophies. Their rivalry runs on different bodies, court positions and a...

Tennis • tennis equipment • polyester strings

2 months ago

Gustavo Kuerten's 1997 French Open run introduced Luxilon polyester strings to the sport. Physics research explains why the...

Tennis • atp tour • clay court tennis

2 months ago

Thomas Muster and Sergi Bruguera once won almost exclusively on clay. The modern ATP calendar and surface data explain why that...