Anita Alvarez is unconscious at the bottom of the pool after the end of her routine at the FINA World Aquatic Championships. Her knees are touching the tiles, her arms are limp, her eyes are closed. Later, we learn she wasn’t breathing. What would have happened had her coach, AndreaContinue Reading
Arthur Ashe balletically leaps across the lawn court, his precious metal chain peeking from behind his white polo shirt. This individual serves unreturned aces and then returns low forehand volleys as his opponent, Jimmy Connors, looks lower in frustration.Continue Reading
As she nears the conclusion of the professional career spanning more than 20 years, Nicola Spirig knows putting in a bid goodbye to triathlon won’t be easy, nor that she will ever be able to leave her training days completely behind her.Continue Reading
This is Wimbledon — the third grand slam tournament from the calendar year — but the venue and the competition are not quite as most know it. At this tennis games club, the crowds are smaller, the cheers quieter, and the courts packed nearer together than on the All EnglandContinue Reading
Intended for Claire Heafford, the particular abuse she says she suffered like a young gymnast has left a lasting mark on her life.Continue Reading
Because MMA fighter Yaroslav Amosov walks through the streets surrounding their hometown of Irpin, which sits close to 20 kilometers (12. 4 miles) western of the Ukrainian funds Kyiv, there are fleeting moments when it appears like an ordinary day in May.Continue Reading
Because MMA fighter Yaroslav Amosov walks with the streets surrounding their hometown of Irpin, which sits about 20 kilometers (12. 4 miles) west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, there are fleeting moments when it seems like an ordinary day in May.Continue Reading
At times there’s simply too much emotional turmoil and pain to comprehend as the 19-year Kostyuk, who was born in Kyiv, reflects at the impact of Russia’s invasion on her country and her other Ukrainian players. “Right now could be something indescribable, I might say, because there is a parentContinue Reading
At times there’s simply too much emotional uncertainty and pain to comprehend as the 19-year Kostyuk, who was born in Kyiv, reflects over the impact of Russia’s invasion on her nation and her fellow Ukrainian players. “Right now is something indescribable, I might say, because there is a parent ofContinue Reading
It was a noise the previous international football celebrity says immediately carried his “head plus body” back to their native Croatia, where he lived as an eight-year-old when war broke out in what has been then Yugoslavia. So when their football club Shakhtar Donetsk was forced to depart Kyiv, theContinue Reading