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Black athletes

This tag pages covers Black athletes and their various achievements and lives in and out of sport.

Golf

Glorious on Nicola Bennett and Lauren Prince shaking up golf

12th March 202221st March 2022 by lukealexdavis

Golf but make it fashion and accessible and fly.

Basketball

NBA hair swaps

9th March 20222nd April 2022 by lukealexdavis

Insert “cut above the rest” joke here.

Soccer

Clarence Seedorf’s love affair with the Champions League

1st March 202214th March 2022 by lukealexdavis

How does it feel to be one of the Champions League’s favourites? Ask Clarence Seedorf.

Basketball

Horace Grant goggle appreciation post

27th February 202228th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

Those googles looked lowkey fire though.

Water Sports

Selema Masekela on African surf culture and new book, ‘AFROSURF’

26th February 202228th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

‘Yeah. For me, as a teenager, it [surfing] for sure saved my life. When I think of the things that I was struggling with and the angst that I was carrying, and identity shit that I was trying to figure out, family stuff, etc., it was the one place where I could go and just be so … even.’

Athletics

Could you hang with Eliud Kipchoge?

25th February 202227th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

Run, Eliud, Run!

Soccer

D’Margio Wright-Phillips, his dad Shaun, and his grandfather Ian Wright in one video

19th February 202219th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

If you’re staying indoors and need something warm to watch, check out this video featuring Ian Wright, his son, and grandson.

Olympics / Skiing / Winter Olympics / Winter Sports

Shout out to Benjamin Alexander, the first Jamaican alpine skiier at the Winter Olympics

19th February 202217th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

Alexander joins a host of Jamaicans who have featured at the Winter Games, but he has the distinction of being the first in alpine skiiing.

Olympics / Winter Olympics / Winter Sports

Montell Douglas and Mica McNeill: bobsledding at Beijing 2022

17th February 202221st February 2022 by lukealexdavis

History will be made in the two-woman bobsleigh team for Great Britain.

Olympics / Winter Olympics / Winter Sports

Can you pick all 15 African nations that have participated in the Winter Olympic games?

16th February 202218th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

Can you get more than half?

Olympics / Sport / Winter Olympics / Winter Sports

Erin Jackson: the first Black woman to win individual gold at Winter Olympics

16th February 202217th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

Black girl magic: on ice!

Olympics / Skiing / Winter Olympics / Winter Sports

Shout out to Samuel Ikpefan, the only Nigerian athlete at Beijing 2022

15th February 202217th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

Ikpefan is the second consecutive Nigerian Olympian at the Winter Games, after Seun Adigun appeared in two-women bobsled in 2018.

Soccer

‘A New Formation’ explores how Black footballers have shaped the modern game

3rd February 202219th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

‘A New Formation reveals the vibrancy and nuance of contemporary Black life in Britain.’

Soccer

Remembering Reinaldo

24th January 202221st March 2022 by lukealexdavis

Long live O Rei!

Soccer

Nwankwo Kanu’s hat-trick for Arsenal against Chelsea in 1999

24th January 20227th February 2022 by lukealexdavis

Kanu believe it etc.

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