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.
Black athletes
This tag pages covers Black athletes and their various achievements and lives in and out of sport.
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.
Jamie Nesbitt Golden wrote a great piece on Chicago Prairie Tennis Club, the oldest Black tennis club in the US, and their latest fundraiser to repair decades-old courts and revive a youth program that launched pro players
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All of Andrew Cole’s Champions League goals
Andy Cole, Andy Cole, Andy, Andy Cole, He gets the ball and scores a goal, Andy, Andy Cole.
Alexandra Ndolo: the German-born fencer now competing for Kenya
“[…] my career is not typical. I have a really strong body. So I think for Paris, I will be in the best shape of my life”