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Black athletes
This tag pages covers Black athletes and their various achievements and lives in and out of sport.
Olympics / Soccer / Sport / Summer Olympics / Wrestling
The top 10 posts of 2024
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All of Raheem Sterling's Champions League goals
I wanted to make a “Sterling silver” joke regarding his Champions League runner’s-up medal from 2020/21 but I couldn’t think of one.
For Black History Month, the LTA did a spotlight on the Black Tennis Collective, formed from five pioneering organisations from the Black tennis community
For JSTOR Daily, Livia Gershon looked back at “The Rumble in the Jungle”, the World Heavyweight Championship match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali held in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo): The 1974 Rumble in the Jungle was freighted with symbolism regarding American racial politics and the pan-African struggle in the context of the Cold War.
Shout out to Sifan Hassan for winning gold in her first Olympic marathon
Is there any long distance race she can’t win?
Shout out to Teddy Riner, the new Olympic champion in the men's +100 kg judo!
Over 2m tall in height, a thousand more away from the competition.
Kylian Mbappé wearing a mask after breaking his nose against Austria
‘Who got more snotty flows than snotty nose?’
Remembering Eric Moussambani at Sydney 2000
It’s been 24 years since Moussambani’s famous swim and unlikely win.
Ademola Lookman's virtuoso performance in the 2024 Europa League final
You won’t see many hat-tricks better than this.