Sports and Recreation
In 2012 racing driver Charlie Martin transitioned to live as female full time, documenting the gender reassignment on her youtube channel and gaining 1000,000’s of views for some of her videos. Since transitioning Charlie has found new confidence in her racing and some of the best results of her career competing in faster and faster cars around Europe, a sharp contrast to having a nervous breakdown and on the verge of suicide before deciding to transition. Now a Stonewall Sports Champion and finding confidence living as a women Charlie is raising transgendered awareness in motorsports with initiatives like at Silverstone for PRIDE at the British GT Championship.
Basketball star Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash in California, alongside his 13-year-old daughter.
James Healy denied his assault on Owen Jones was motivated by the victim’s sexual orientation or political views.
Susie Wolff has had a career of being the only woman on track, the only woman in the room. Becoming the first female driver in 22 years to drive a Formula One car at Silverstone in 2014, Wolff knew people had placed their highest hopes on her, while others were hoping she’d fail. After retiring from driving, Wolff has taken on a new challenge – the world of Formula E. As the principal for the Venturi racing team, Wolff is now a leading figure for this new world of electric race cars, and is aiming to make the championship more diverse than it’s Formula One predecessor. As Wolff likes to say, when the drivers are lined up on the starting grid, you can’t see who’s a man or a woman.
Whether it was the Queen parachuting in with James Bond during the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, or the hopeful chants of ‘football’s coming home’ as England made it to the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup, there have been plenty of moments to remember in the world of sport this decade.
There was a stadium announcement after 75 minutes saying that “racist behaviour among spectators is interfering with the game”.
Italian football league competition Serie A has come under heavy criticism for its attempt at an anti-racism campaign, which features an illustration of three monkeys. The league claims that the paintings aimed to “spread the values of integration, multiculturalism and brotherhood,” but the campaign has been branded a “sick joke” by football anti-discrimination network Fare.
A well-chosen remark would be an important reminder to the country that its human rights abuses aren’t going unnoticed, Amnesty director Kate Allen writes.
Australian soccer's governing body said it had reached an agreement with the players' union on a new collective bargaining agreement that "closes the pay gap" between the Socceroos and Matildas.
The world is on fire, but football, when done the right way, has the opportunity to set an example our leaders cannot, it is up to us as fans to support that, journalist Jen Offord writes.