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Editorial |

Welcome to issue number 58 of the ICSSPE Bulletin. This month, we feature “Ethical Issues in Coaching”, with topics including A Critical Review of Coach Conduct, Examining Sports Coaching Philosophy, and The Politics of Evidence in Sport Thoughts on Coaching Ethics. Thank you to Editorial Board Member Richard Bailey for his much appreciated assistance in collecting and editing these articles and delivering us such an interesting overview.
To support the feature topic, our resources section includes an in-depth webliography on Ethical Issues in Coaching with links to organisations, print and online publications and open access fulltext documents. Thanks to Gretchen Ghent for compiling such a comprehensive listing.
2010 is an exciting year for sport, starting soon with the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada, and the Soccer World Cup being held in June/July in South Africa. Countless other events will also be held in all fields of sport, sport science and physical activity, and we hope that ICSSPE will have the chance to be part of many of them. A list of important events can be found, as always, in our ICSSPE News, and please don’t forget that ICSSPE members are able to complete a Conference Announcement Form online (in the Member’s section of our website) that will automatically be added to our Member’s Events list on the website (www.icsspe.org.)
In an exciting development, the ICSSPE Editorial Board has made some important decisions regarding the design of the ICSSPE Bulletin. To avoid duplication in the announcement of events and to further develop the quality of the Bulletin, at their annual meeting in Brisbane in 2009, the Board decided that the Bulletin will become the ICSSPE Journal. The Journal will be published twice a year (May and October) and will include a Publisher’s Statement, a Foreword, a Special Feature (with feature themes addressed by sport science experts from around the world), Current Issues (articles on international, national and regional sport science developments), Emerging Scholars, Resources and ICSSPE Contacts. The most innovative change to the Bulletin is that articles submitted will be peer reviewed prior to publication. Meetings, conferences or events that you wish to share with everyone through ICSSPE should now be sent to icsspe@icsspe.org to be included in the ICSSPE News. Research applications, post-event stories and pictures to allow your organisation to spread your messages should also be sent to this email address.
I wish you all the best for a successful 2010 and look forward to working with you.
Katrin Koenen
Publications and Scientific Affairs

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