カテゴリー: Sport
Female taekwondo and karate trainers are forced to practise in secret since the Taliban takeover and fear they may never compete againOn the morning of 15 August, when the Taliban were at the gates of Kabul, Soraya, a martial arts trainer in the Afghan…
New Taliban interim government has loyalist hardliners in all key posts and no womenAfghan women, including the country’s national women’s cricket team, will be banned from playing sport under the new Taliban government, according to an official in the…
• Group of 77 included Afghanistan women’s football team• Players suffered beatings and had to pass Taliban checkpointsA group of 77 Afghani athletes and family members, including members of the Afghanistan women’s national football team, youth team an…
Nilofar Bayat begins rebuilding her life in Spain after days of fear for her life under Taliban ruleWhen the Taliban entered Kabul, Nilofar Bayat, the captain of Afghanistan’s female national wheelchair basketball team, knew she had to get out.“There w…
The Springboks’ tour and the protests that ensued 40 years ago helped set the fight for Māori rights on a stronger pathThe 1981 Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand will always have a special place in any narrative about the international fight against …
Public support for Yoshihide Suga’s cabinet dipped below 30%, despite widespread support for going ahead with the GamesPublic support for the government of Japan’s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has slumped to an all-time low, despite evidence that mo…
Army officer wins nation’s first athletics gold to spark celebrations and a resurgence of pride amid the ravages of CovidIndia has been swept up in a wave of euphoria after Neeraj Chopra won the country’s first ever Olympic athletics gold medal with vi…
Shot put champion Gong Lijiao quizzed about boyfriends and settling down into ‘a woman’s life’The Chinese state media channel CCTV has been roundly criticised after a TV anchor described an Olympic medallist as a “manly woman” and asked her if she had …
Victory in Tokyo has reignited debate over a decades-old compromise with the island’s goliath neighbourIn the hours between Taiwan winning gold and silver in Olympic badminton on the weekend, local courts in Taipei were packed with enthusiastic young p…
The men’s gold and women’s bronze medals meant everything to Fiji, which has the highest per-capita Covid infection rate in the worldWhen the Fijian men’s sevens team beat New Zealand to win gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, the entire nation ce…
Watching an Afghan refugee in the Olympics is a source of inspiration to many women in a country where riding a bike is seen as a political statement and the Taliban are gaining groundWhen Masomah Ali Zada makes her Olympic debut at the women’s cycling…
After a year’s delay, the Games begin this week. But it is an event that few in a fearful host nation now want as infections rise againThe joy and anticipation that greeted the International Olympic Committee’s decision in 2013 to award the 2020 Games …
Kinaua Biribo says she wants to empower women in the Pacific island nation, where almost 60% of men have perpetrated intimate partner violenceKinaua Biribo is unlikely to win an Olympic medal. When the elimination rounds of her judo category begin late…
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s film has high ambition but dodges complexity in favour of overheated melodramaPartly set in the Mumbai underworld, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s boxing drama aims at Raging Bull grit but has an unfortunately irresistible drift tow…
Non-binding resolution also calls for governments to impose further sanctions on China as tensions riseThe European parliament has overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on diplomatic officials to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in respons…