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The sporting year of 2022 seems destined to be defined by events which will bring both the International Olympic Committee and FIFA under intense scrutiny over their relationships with host nations.
It is well over a century since Rudyard Kipling wrote The Islanders. It was a poem which spoke of “flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals”.
It is well over a century since Rudyard Kipling wrote The Islanders. It was a poem which spoke of “flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals”.
25 May 2021Politics Certain words make you feel like you belong to another time. You think you’re at home in the present, but then you’re forced to think again. For me, one such word is ‘antifa’. For the entirety of my childhood, youth and adult life the term ‘fascist’ was the most injurious of insults: the shortened epithet – ‘fascio’ in Italian, ‘facho’ in French – recalling the similar abbreviation that gives us the word Nazi. Then, all of a sudden, ‘anti-fascist’ became a slur, repeatedly used by Donald Trump as a synonym for ‘left-wing terrorist’. My gene...
Friday, 2 April 2021 The distinctive bright pink pages have become familiar across the world and since it first appeared in news kiosks 125 years ago this week, Gazzetta dello Sport has become an institution. The paper has acclaimed Olympic champions, World Cup victories and defeats but also has also exposed sporting scandal and witnessed tragedy. It has even devoted a front page to the passing of a Pope. It is said to be the most-read in Italy, either in print or online, which would have astonished founders Eugenio Camillo Costamagna and Eliso Rivera in 1896. It came about as the result of...