Sport-as-Performance Website

As I have mentioned a couple of times, I feel that there is a lack of academic writing on sports topics that is actually written by people who participate in sports themselves. I am pleased to see another addition to the small community!

A friend of mine, Kath Bicknell, is currently writing a PhD on the performative aspects of sport, and she is also a high-level cyclist. She has a website at http://kathbicknell.wordpress.com/ which she describes as " an online record of action and reflection, held together with a mountain biking theme." She includes published writing, notes on racing, a record of academic work and news on related topics. Although Kath's website doesn't contain much of her academic work (possibly due to the small potential audience), she does tend to consider everything from a "performance" aspect, even when her intended audience is the general sports/ sports spectator community.

Personally, I feel like Kath's work adds a great deal to the general discussion about the purpose of sport, which I consider to be an important philosophical topic.

If anyone knows of any other athlete-academics or academic-athletes who write stuff, then please let me know, because I'm interested!