Caribbean athletes have made history at the Olympic Games. Since the time when Cuban fencer Ramón Fonst first made it to the awards podium at the Paris 1900 event and until Rio 2016, dozens of formidable athletes from this region have won medals in the main sporting...
After an unprecedented delay due to a once-in-a-century global health crisis, the Tokyo Games are finally ready to begin. Yet the athletes, like the Games themselves, have changed. The year of lockdowns, isolation, and the threat — or reality — of catching COVID-19...
It’s been six months since COVID-19 emerged in North America, causing theatres to close. In the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the now-familiar director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently predicted that theatres may...
Though wrestling is widely regarded as the world’s oldest sport, women have only recently gained a foothold. And even then, they’ve done so while facing tremendous discrimination and resistance from organizers, other wrestlers and fans. This...
Quite a few of the continent’s best athletes will compete in the Pan American Games, an event that is approaching its first 70 years of history. A total of 41 countries and more than 6600 athletes will participate in 39 modalities. Which will be the most...