Dr Ed Coughlan: How do we overcome the sporting edge given to kids born early in the year?

Many of the world’s leading sports scientists gathered in Montreal to debate, amongst other things, a peculiar GAA phenomenon — the relative age effect, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

The view from atop the Montreal Tower in the centre of the Parc Olympique in Quebec, Canada is awe-inspiring.

Forty years after it hosted the Montreal Olympics, it recently welcomed sport scientists from all over the world for a special seminar on sport expertise that preceded the annual conference of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA).