Just for serious thinkers
Early this morning, about 3:15 am, Mihaela shook me gently awake; “Honey, it’s time. Usain is about to run, wake up. Usain is about to run”. Millions of people surely stayed awake last night to watch human history being made by the Jamaican boy turned god, to compete at Rio in his best race, the […]
When western leadership chose to bash the Sochi Olympics with groundless allegations back in 2014, something in the soul of sport died. The reverberations of the sadistic politicizing form that moment, has now reached a deafening roar in Rio de Janeiro. At the epicenter stands the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), and organization sworn […]
It’s dawn in Moscow, scattered clouds drift by overhead as a slender athletic figure peers up from a center city balcony. The city is humid and eerily quiet at 5 a.m., but still as daunting as ever for a girl raised simple in Volgograd. Yelena Isinbayeva’s hand trembles a bit, as she ponders the fate of […]