John D. Horne

Visiting Professor of Sport Science, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (Retired)

[John D. Horne @SoundtheHorne]

@CaraCAitchison Snap! Drove through here on 27th on my way home from visiting my daughter on the Isle of Mull. Stay well and keep up the good work!

[Jed Mercurio @jed_mercurio]

Thank you for submitting your audition for the next series of #LineofDuty but we’re looking for a character with at least one redeeming moral principle and a performance that places even just a scintilla of doubt in the audience’s mind that he might not be totally bent

[John D. Horne @SoundtheHorne]

The media have picked up on “women” as one topic at Tokyo 2020, partly because of the opening ceremony.

For background see Robin Kietlinski’s Japanese Women and Sport, in the Globalizing Sport Studies series, published by Bloomsbury Academic:

https://t.co/sIBzGmbXaI

[TRENDS Group @TrendsRA]

#TRENDS Research & Advisory publishes an insight entitled: "The Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics: A Regrettable and Forgettable Covid Games?" By: Dr. John Horne

https://t.co/3wQg13VNos

#olympics_2020
#covid_19
#Knowledge_Empowers_Future

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Arcuri received £126,000 of taxpayer money during her affair with Johnson. It appears Hancock gave deals to Coladangelo’s relatives. This, in addition to contracts and vast amounts of public money being handed to Tory mates. This is not a sex scandal - it’s a corruption scandal.

[John D. Horne @SoundtheHorne]

@andy_rack Seems like the IOC maybe covering their backs by getting athletes to sign waivers about transmission of C-19. Need to check this.

[Barbara Holthus @barbGhawaii]

“The criticism by athletes and elsewhere matter -will leave a mark on these Olympics impossible to remove” “Say there is a spike in Covid cases as a result of the Olympics, that will be devastating”. Says Olympic scholar John Horne ⁦@Blake_EssigCNN⁩
https://t.co/Ews6VMHXCE

[Vinny M @MVinny69]

A wee thought this morning for Ian Dury - Born #OTD 1942

I could be the catalyst that sparks the revolution
I could be an inmate in a long-term institution..

[John D. Horne @SoundtheHorne]

人々の命と暮らしを守るために、#東京五輪の開催中止を求めます #StopTokyoOlympic - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/bNQNLG882O via @UKChange

[John D. Horne @SoundtheHorne]

@HelenJe63185798 Nice. Where is it?

[John D. Horne @SoundtheHorne]

@jonathanwatts Thanks and stay well Jon

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

New UK speech guidelines being introduced to help slow the spread. 🤣

Please be considerate with your speech to help save lives.

[John D. Horne @SoundtheHorne]

@RSPBScotland @nature_scot @ScotSAGES @VisitScotland @RSPBScience @scottish_water @scvotweet Congratulations to all nominations but especially to the winner HWT from HWDT.

[Ben Carrington @BenHCarrington]

"And I guess I do believe as a scholar, as a writer, as a voice, that there are certain obligations that fall on people like myself. And one of them is to offer shards of hope, even in the teeth of things that seem intractable." @bungatuffie https://t.co/FOlptfkhvE

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

Fabulous opening gag from @MarinaHyde https://t.co/c8Nvh226cD

[John D. Horne @SoundtheHorne]

ISSA https://t.co/aZNWa92mNS via @YouTube

[John D. Horne @SoundtheHorne]

@iainmaloney @sayakamurata @harukimurakami_ @Kino_Yosho @BirlinnBooks @PolygonBooks No worries Iain your book was in kinokuniya shinjuku in March. Great read.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

In 2016, Trump paid $129,250 more to Stormy Daniels than to the USA government.

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

As it’s revealed Donald Trump went 10 years without paying income tax, experts say it would be hugely embarrassing if this tweet were to resurface: