Under the Weather: Combating the Climate in British Sport [Footnote1

 [1] For the purposes of this essay we have tended to use ‘climate’ and ‘weather’ interchangeably rather than adopt the atmospheric science distinction between short-term weather events and the longer-term climate patterns. We are grateful to the Carnegie Trust for financial assistance towards research costs.

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