Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Sports'
After Boston, One Foot in Front of the Other
by Chloe Angyal, The Nation, USA - Like most people who were fortunate enough to not have loved ones in harm’s way yesterday, I sat in shock at the news out of Boston. I scrolled through my Twitter feed with...
Sports Promote Social Solidarity in Turkey and the Balkans
by Menekse Tokyay, SETimes, Bosnia and Herzegovina - The power of sports to support the socio-economic disadvantaged in the Balkans and Turkey is taking root at the grassroots level....
South Africa: Women, Football and Song
by Rebecca Davis, Daily Maverick, South Africa - Dirkx doesn't see football as a man's sport. She sees it, in fact, as the perfect tool to encourage women to view themselves as deserving equal resources to men and as being...
Paralympics 2012: These Games Could Be the Greatest Ever
by Tanni Grey-Thompson, Telegraph, UK - There is a simple reason that I cannot wait for the Paralympics to start, and that is that I have spent the last seven years saying that these will be the best that we...
The Most Politically Correct Olympics in History
by Yulia Latynina, Moscow Times, Russia - The London Games have gone down in history as the most politically correct Olympics ever. Moreover, it was political correctness in its worst form — on the verge of fascism....
Creating True Gender Equality in Sport
by Ellie Gordon-Moershel, The F-Word, Canada - Kathleen Lahey recently led a team of researchers, students and colleagues in developing the legal material for a claim against the London Games organizing committee for its refusal to carry out an equalities...
Brunei, Qatar and Saudi Arabia Make Olympic History for Women
by Jillian C. York, Al-Monitor, USA - Brunei, Qatar and Saudi Arabia sent female athletes to the Olympics for the first time this year, guaranteeing the 2012 London games a place in history as the first Olympics in which every...
No Saudi Women at Olympic Games
by Elizabeth Dickinson, The National, United Arab Emirates - Minky Worden, director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch, said a single-gender Saudi team would be "a big black eye for the IOC and the London Games, because so much...
Sex Testing in Sport and the Face of 'New' Sexism
by Ellie Gordon-Moershel, rabble, Canada - Sandy Wells talks to The F Word about how treating 'hypoandrogenism' in female athletes is representative of the current state of systematic sexism in sport. She argues that combating these practices needs to go...
Don't Like Sports? Three Other Reasons to Be a Fan of Title IX
by Bryce Covert, The Nation, USA - This Saturday marked the fortieth anniversary of Title IX, the civil rights law that prohibits discrimination in education on the basis of sex....
Boruca Mothers Find Solace in Soccer
by Sydney Boles, Tico Times, Costa Rica - A group of Boruca women were tired, bored and overworked. So they started a soccer team....
Greece and Germany Take Their Fight Outside
by Miriam Widman, Der Spiegel, Germany - For months, Germans have been complaining of Greek profligacy while Greeks have been griping about German bullying. Now, the two countries will have it out on the football pitch. The symbolism of Friday...
New Fields to Conquer for Muslim Sportswomen
by Marium Sattar, The Daily Star, Lebanon - Sadaf Rahimi, a 17-year-old boxer from Afghanistan, is one Ambassador Award nominee who has overcame the lack of facilities to practice in and the difficulties of living under the Taliban – which...
Euro 2012: A Victim of Power Games
by Jagienka Wilczak, Polityka, Poland - With less than a month left to go before the kick-off of the Euro 2012, the fate of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has poisoned relations between the EU and Ukraine — the co-organiser of...
Bout Time: America's Boxing Women Aim for the Olympics
by Sue Jaye Johnson, New York Times, USA - ‘‘I’m not a girl boxer. I’m just a boxer. I’m not doing this for women. I want to be treated the way the guys are treated. Not special because I’m a...
Women Who Bite the Dust
by Nicky Rehbock, Media Club, South Africa - South Africans Stefanie Botha and Angela Shields have shattered all stereotypes by competing as the only all-female rally racing crew in the country for 2011, showing they're every bit as skilful and...
What's in an “Om”?: How Women Are Transforming Yoga
by Meera Subramanian, Religion Dispatches, USA - Now it is women who have become what Kate Clere McIntyre describes as “modern-day evangelists, getting up on their yoga platform” and finding ways to push women to do things they think they...
Helping Homelessness Through Football
by Nicola Hebden, France 24, France - At the foot of the Eiffel Tower, in distinctly autumnal weather for August, the one of the world’s largest international football events took place. Despite only having three 22 by 16 meter AstroTurf...
Leaving the Sport, Gaining an Eating Disorder
by Melissa Rohlin Los Angeles Times, USA - Since the age of 7 Alyssa Kitasoe had devoted her life to gymnastics, and without it she felt a loss of identity. She tried coaching as an undergraduate assistant, but shuffling mats...
Queen Marta: The Humble Kingdom of the World's Best Woman Soccer Player
by Wiebke Hollersen, Der Spiegel, Germany - Brazil's Marta is regarded as one of the most talented women to ever play soccer. During the upcoming Women's World Cup, she will bear the hope and pride of her booming country. But...
What's Up with ... Going Gluten-Free?
by Julie Upton, M.S., R.D., C.S.S.D., ESPN, USA - While gluten is safe for most, it's no picnic for the 3 million -- or one in 133 -- people with celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder. For people with this hereditary...
Maiden Success
by Kristen Allen, Der Spiegel, Germany - It wasn't easy, but for the first time ever, official collector stickers have been printed for this year's Women's World Cup in Germany. Printer Panini struggled to get player information and photos, but...
Laura Dekker's Quest for a World Sailing Record
by Cathrin Gilbert, Der Spiegel, Germany - Fifteen-year-old Laura Dekker aims to become the youngest woman to sail around the world. Despite efforts by Dutch youth welfare officials to prevent the teen from making her record-breaking solo voyage, she is...
Why Cricket Matters
by Rafia Zakaria, Dawn, Pakistan - If we can make cricket our own, and vindicate ourselves by excelling against teams representing places where it was invented, we can also perhaps adopt an attitude towards colonialism and the West that is...
If Zimbabwe, Why Not Sri Lanka?
by Sam Pari, ABC, Australia - Should we be playing cricket with a country which is responsible for so many people fleeing on boats towards us? Would we play cricket with the Burmese Junta or the Taliban in Afghanistan?...
Gaza’s Surfer Girls
by Sarah A. Topol, Atlantic, USA - Riding the waves and testing Hamas’s limits....
Sex Trafficking Fear as the Games Loom
by Sarah Calkin, Echo News, UK - Research has shown that during large sporting events, sex crime actually increases because of the large number of participants and a lot of people traveling from country to country....
Power Clubs Changing Girls’ Lives in Kenya
by Brenda Kageni, The Standard, Kenya - "Girls are lost because they are not mentored. Most of the issues they have later in life are because they lacked mentorship at the formative stages. Most schools do not have strong counselling...
Girls' Football Project Moving the Goalposts in Kenya
by Julia Kuckelkorn, Deutsche Welle, Germany - In Kenya, a unique football project aims at teaching some 3000 girls self esteem and gender equality as well as being competetive on and off the pitch. Tunaweza, the Swahili expression for "We...
India Shuns Poor in Commonwealth Games Makeover
by Nita Bhalla, Reuters AlterNet, UK - As millions across the globe focus their attention on the World Cup in South Africa, the Indian capital New Delhi is busy preparing to host another international sporting event - the 2010 Commonwealth...
Coexistence in Soccer
by Tamar Zmora, Ynet, Israel - Some 350 Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian children get together in annual one-day event. 'The mixed game gave me a feeling that we can begin to make peace and enjoy life through football,' one of...
South Africa Pushes to Make the Cup Its Own
by Celia W. Dugger, New York Times, USA - With less than three weeks before the world’s most watched sporting event, only 36,000 of the almost three million tickets have been sold in Africa outside of South Africa itself, the...
Who’s Feeling It?: Informal traders and the World Cup
by Jennifer Elle Lewis, Gender Links Opinion and Commentary Service, South Africa - As the whole country gears up for the quickly approaching World Cup 2010, not everyone is happy. Informal traders are waiting for a response this week from...
Human Trafficking At The Games
by Linda Light, Gorkhapatra, Nepal - There are widespread concerns about possible increases in human trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation during large-scale sporting events....
Why Aren't Female Ski Jumpers Allowed in the Olympics?
by Amanda Ruggeri, Mother Jones, USA - "Because of the unanswered medical question as to whether ski jumping agrees with the female organism, this would be a very daring experiment and should be strongly advised against."...
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