We are glad to inform you that the official photographic album for the 28th Athens Classic Marathon 2010 is available through the www.themarathonroute.com e-shop.

For its journal Cultural Trends, the publishing house Routledge calls for papers dealing with the Cultural Olympiad.

Kinesiological taping as performed in the Far East has established itself as a therapeutic method in Germany and Europe. Taping is a surface therapy because of it's effects on the surface of the skin. Taping complements and supports other methods such as massage, physical therapy, manual therapy, lymph drainage, and some forms of neurological therapy.

Over half a century in just a few days; we move back from new world record holder, Patrick Makau in Berlin, to Alain Mimoun, the 1956 Olympic marathon champion, in Melbourne.

500 races in 101 countries are brought to you today by HarperCollins in World’s Ultimate Running Races.

A new book will be published this month by Oxford University Press entitled Sick Societies - Responding to the global challenge of chronic disease.

The 10th edition of the Perspectives series is now available via ICSSPE´s publishing partner Routledge. This Perspectives issue is entitled Lifelong Engagement in Sport and Physical Activity – Participation and Performance across the Lifespan.

Hot on the heels of its 30th Anniversary Issue comes the latest issue- August/September – of Irish Runner magazine - another bumper 80 page issue which celebrates a number of recent success stories by young Irish athletes- including race walker Kate Veale’s World Youths’ Gold Medal and Ruairi Finnegan’s Gold at 1500m in the European Youth Olympics.

USA Track & Field's 2010 Annual Report can now be viewed online at the USATF website, www.usatf.org

You don't need to be around high achievers for very long to realise that it isn't talent alone which separates them from the rest of us; it is obsession. They are obsessives. If it hadn't been running or jumping or throwing, it would have been something else - stamp collecting, train-spotting, serial-killing, et al.