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  • In leagues where a club persistently dominates for a long time this house believes that less prominent clubs should not sell their players to the dominant club

    EEC In Action XX 2021 · 1 · 2021-09-11

  • This house, as the IOC, would allow athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs in the Olympics

    Regatta IV 2021 · 3 · 2021-09-11

  • This Parliament (as Manoj) will not play X-League.

    Infoslide

    Manoj is a good cricketer in the Indian domestic league. Cricket has been his only vow since childhood. His father always taught him to respect the cricketing norms. He took a lot of risks in his career to continue playing cricket. Playing domestic league is not a good income. this time he was called to a team in the X League. this league is very prestigious. His father's body is very bad. He could have paid for his father's treatment if he had played in the X-League one season. However, he knows that if you want to play in the X League, you have to do fixing. He has to play all the matches as the gamblers say.

    CUSD OPEN : Fundraiser for A Child · 3 · 2021-09-02

  • This house believes that sports leagues facing declining viewership should heavily invest in the development of modified short-form versions of their games.

    Infoslide

    In recent years, many sports leagues have overseen the creation or expansion of leagues and/or tournaments playing modified short-form versions of their respective sports. Often these short-form versions are characterised by a faster pace, shorter games, fewer players per side, and/or simpler rules. Examples include T20 and The Hundred (cricket), Rugby 7s and RugbyX (rugby), Fast4 Tennis, 3x3 Basketball, etc.

    Queer Mixed Doubles 2021 · 1 · 2021-08-29

  • This house believes that all professional sports teams should be majority fan-owned

    Infoslide

    The ownership of professional sports teams can be split among multiple owners e.g. 68% of Juventus Football Club is owned by the Agnelli family, which founded the Fiat car company, while the remaining 32% is split among smaller shareholders Some teams, however, are owned mostly by fans e.g. 75% of Bayern Munich Football Club is split among more than 250,000 fans, while the remaining 25% is split equally among 3 companies.

    Lasallian Debate League 2021 · 2 · 2021-08-28

  • This house as Athletic Bilbao will end the Basque-only player policy

    Shri Ram Debating Festival 2021 · Open Quarters · 2021-08-23

  • That sports associations where the sports have caused sportspeople to develop CTE should be forced to compensate the players regardless of whether they could have foreseen that player developing CTE.

    Infoslide

    Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive and fatal brain disease associated with repeated traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), including concussions and repeated blows to the head. It is also associated with the development of dementia. Studies have shown that people who experience TBI in early to midlife are two to four times more at risk of developing dementia in late life. this risk appears to be much higher in people with several TBIs, although more research is needed to confirm this. CTE has been demonstrated to have occurred at high levels in sports such as rugby, wrestling, and American football that involve frequent head trauma

    Oceania Queer Open 2021 · 1 · 2021-08-21

  • This house, as a star Latin American soccer player, would stay in their national league over playing in European clubs.

    Infoslide

    Latin American countries has consistently held top 8 in FIFA world ranking. However, there's a rising trend of Latin American players playing in European clubs (e.g. Philippe Countinho in Barcelona, Lionel Messi and Neymar da Silva in Paris Saint-Germain) instead of their national clubs.

    ALSA e-Comp UI 2021 · HS Round 3 · 2021-08-20

  • This house prefers a world without the commercialization of sports.

    Infoslide

    Commercialization is the process of bringing new products or services to market. The commercialization of sports is that aspect of the sports enterprise that involves the sale display or use of sport or some aspect of sport so as to produce income.

    Icho 2021 · Novice Final · 2021-08-15

  • This house would make it mandatory for national sporting teams should use diversity roster quotas to reflect the diversity of the national population.

    Infoslide

    A roster quota is a requirement that sports teams have players that are representative of the country they represent. For example a roster quota based on nationality would require that a team is made up of players that reflects the racial diversity of that country. To be specific if a US sports team has a roster of 20 players and about 15% of the American population is African-American then A MINIMUM of 3 out of the 20 players (15%) must be African-American. Roster quotas can also be done for other forms of identity such as LGBTQ+ identity ethnicity etc.

    DebateGo Waterloo 2021 Tournament · 3 · 2021-08-13

  • This house would allow the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports

    Infoslide

    Performance enhancing drugs like steroids and human growth hormone (HGH) are taken to improve one's performance in competitive sports. They are currently prohibited in competitive sports with drug tests administered to catch cheaters.

    ADSA BP Qualifiers 2021 JUNIOR · 1 · 2021-08-10

  • This house believes that the IOC should strip awards of athletes on the basis of bad behavior

    Infoslide

    "Currently, the only standard that the IOC follows in stripping medalists of their awards is if their actions compromise the integrity of competition. Examples include, but are not limited to, the use of banned drugs and violating amateurism rules. Klete Keller, a 5-time olympic medalist was charged with violating federal law for joining the riot on the US Capitol last January. There have been calls to have his medals stripped."

    Asia Schools Debate Championship 2021 · Open Octos · 2021-08-07

  • This house supports the decision of the International Olympic Committee to allow Russian athletes to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

    Southern Africa National Universities Debating Championships 2021 · 4 · 2021-08-06