by Oliver Onillon | 9 Sep 2020 | Health and Wellness, Sport, Youth Voices
Lockdowns under COVID-19 have kept many people away from gyms. But some are working out more. Is at-home exercise here to stay? Children exercise from the rooftop of their building during lockdown in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 17 May 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) You’d be...
by Paul Radford | 26 Nov 2019 | Europe, Sport
Russia mounted a cloak-and-dagger operation to hide doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Now it faces a possible ban from next summer’s Games. A fan waves the Russian flag over the Olympic rings in Sochi, Russia, 18 February 2014 (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) It is...
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by News Decoder | 12 Jul 2019 | Asia, Sport
By John Mehaffey The expression on Afghanistan cricket captain Gulbadin Naib’s face betrayed his dismay. A torrent of words detailed his deep unhappiness about his team’s performance at the World Cup in England. A side with a most romantic backstory had failed to win...
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by News Decoder | 3 May 2019 | Sport, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows
By Veronica Allan Caster Semenya will have to take hormone-reducing drugs if she wants to continue her stellar international track career. The South African sprinter, a double Olympic champion in the 800 meters, lost her case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport...
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by Paul Radford | 27 Mar 2019 | Globalization, Nationalism, Sport
By Paul Radford Few people would regard the recent news that “breaking” — or breakdancing — has been proposed for inclusion in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics as one of the more politically relevant events of the year. But as a signal of sport’s potential...
