The stage has been set to discuss altitude and its effects on football performance., Dr Ross Tucker weighs in. I was just reading in a local paper that both Denmark and the Netherlands have blamed the ...

The 32 teams participating in the World Cup from June 11 to July 11 will be faced with tactical decisions about altitude as well as soccer. Matches at 7 of the 10 stadiums in South Africa will be ...

Some of Britain's top comics have just spent a week in the Alps, at the skiing and comedy festival, Altitude. The brainchild of Marcus Brigstocke and Andrew Maxwell, the event - staged in the resort ...

In other words, Fifa was saying: " The 2010 World Cup will not be at altitude, folks, but at low altitude, and so don't worry about its effects. Oh, and the hundreds of studies that have found how ...