Cyclisme: Le Tour de France official site;
Play the Game conference talk by Greg Lemond on current issues in Tour de France including doping; and
Cyclisme et littérature Pacemaker - encyclique.com; and Vive le Tour! wonderful documentary video short of the Tour de France in 1962 as seen by Louis Malle and others.
Les Cahiers du Football 'premier journal satirique pour les amoureux du ballon rond' - see its mp3s under Documents
Foot Solidaire 'mise en réseau de différents acteurs dans le but de stabiliser le jeune footballeur africain et accompagner son intégration socio sportive en France'
Espoirs du Foot news on young players across the football world
Sélection A - le webzine des Bleus La base de données du site reste accessible pour vous permettre de revivre les plus belles pages de l'équipe de France de football depuis 1973-
Professional Football Players Observatory run by CIES - University of Neuchâtel and CERSOT - University of Franche-Comté): database of players' career paths and the labur market in five major European leagues; plus their database of references to/articles on players and managers in major European football magazines:
http://www.unine.ch/cies/football
Sport et citoyenneté Sport and Citizenship Association in French & English - "Faire vivre le débat et engager la réflexion sur la place et le rôle du sport dans la société européenne : telle est l'ambition de Sport et Citoyenneté, dont le positionnement atypique fait de cette association le seul think tank européen spécialisé dans le domaine du sport".
Savoir-Sport Data bank (INFE/INSEP): Enrichir la documentation scientifique en languefrançaise accessible pour les entraîneurs de lafrancophonie
SportsStrategies.com Portail de l'économie et du marketing sportif. Not really an academic site, but of same level of seriousness as a site for the football industry; note the bibliography section and dossiers
Leicester University Department of Sociology Sports Resources; incl. Fact Sheets on football-in-society issues [Note: this site was the archive of the resources which were offered by the Centre for the Sociology of Sport. The Centre has now closed. (Sept. 2011)
The Global Game Soccer as a Second Language "launched in January 2003. Plus
Writers on Soccer. "Although based in the southeastern United States—in Decatur, Georgia—we try to privilege non-American stories. Our interest primarily is in the role of football in daily life around the world, the more remote from us the better. We are a one-person operation, with no budget, no sponsors, few advertisers and no FIFA connections. "
INTUTE: Social sciences - sportBrowse down on the site Sport and Leisure Practice section provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. "Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. We aim to match resources to the business curriculum and the needs of researchers. Our target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher and further education." Includes list of forthcoming conferences.
See INTUTE Subject Support Documents incl. Internet resources for Olympic studies Internet for Sport, Leisure and Recreation tutorial new edition from INTUTE's Virtual Training Suite
USA: LA84 Foundation "Digital resources include academic journals, scholarly books, popular sports magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an extensive offering of Olympic publications."
Football Squads up-to-date site of club stats across the world
OPTA Soccer site tickets site Planet soccer Soccer news and statistics
RSSSF Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Run from northern Europe, on-going archive of European and global soccer statistics and records, at club and international level from the earliest days of professional soccer. New users see
RSSSF Guide to Contents. The most comprehensive source on the web. Appears very reliable.
Musée national du sport much improved site