Brook Sport Consulting

Brook Sport Consulting has just completed three facilitator training courses, two for the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) conducted over two weekends in Budapest, Hungary, and one for the International Triathlon Union conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The UCI courses were to train tutors for the UCI Elite National and International Commissaire Courses as facilitators of adult learning using learner centred teaching approaches. Course participants attended from Australi

Brook Sport Consulting conducted a successful first tutor training course for tutors of Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) commisssaires at the World Governing Body’s cycling centre in Aigle, Switzerland.  The course was lead by Norman Brook and co-facilitated by Thanos Nikopoulos. Commissaire is the generic term for an official in competitive cycling, approximately equivalent to umpires or referees in other sports. The training course aimed to improve the teaching skills of

Norman Brook recently presented a paper on the practice of identifying, confirming and developing sporting talent at a seminar in Fortaleza, Brazil, organised through the International Inspiration programme and hosted by the state government of Ceara.  Brazil will host the Summer Olympic Games in 2016 and identifying and developing talent in Olympic sports will be high on the nations agenda.  The second extract from the paper is featured below and others will be publshed here

Readers of the Daily Telegraph have voted Cape Town the Best World City in its 2008 travel awards. South Africa itself also secured a place in the top three best non-European country categories. The Telegraph, one of the UK’s leading daily newspapers, polled 40 000 of its readers in the 10th awards of its kind. Cape Town beat both San Francisco and Sydney to be named as the world’s best city. Cape Town Tourism chief executive, Mariëtte du-Toit Helmbold said: “We are thrilled