TY - JOUR T1 - Kia ora koutou katoa: Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP) warm up JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine JO - Br J Sports Med SP - 1237 LP - 1238 DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2020-103491 VL - 54 IS - 21 AU - Hamish Robert Osborne AU - Daniel Joseph Exeter Y1 - 2020/11/01 UR - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/54/21/1237.abstract N2 - Kia ora koutou katoa. Welcome to the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP) edition of the BJSMIn June/July 2020 the COVID-19 free land of Aotearoa New Zealand launched the first full return of professional basketball to the world. The national women’s team, the Tall Ferns, played in front of a live audience in Auckland shortly before a small cluster of COVID-19 re-emerged and Auckland went again into lockdown. At the time of writing, New Zealand’s ‘team of 5 million’ were socially isolating and getting used to wearing masks in public. While several parts of Australia are COVID-19 free, millions in Melbourne remain in lockdown. While some sports have managed to play in bubbles, others have had system failures and widespread viral infection involving whole teams.As clinicians, COVID-19 has meant providing ‘usual’medical care, to support athletes health, well-being and employment in isolation bubbles and then then in a heartbeat caring for whole teams with life threatening virus. Ultimately, there will be much musing over how we best supported athletes through a pandemic. Elimination again appears possible in New Zealand and athletes will again … ER -