Kigali sponsors foreign soccer clubs, organizes the African NBA playoffs and wants to host a Formula 1 Grand Prix. Paul Kagame’s government sells its commitment to sport as a path to progress. Human rights organizations, however, maintain that the aim is to whitewash the regime’s abuses
Female players in the league have been targeted for racist and sexist attacks in the wake of the sport’s growing popularity thanks to young stars like Caitlin Clark
Inoxtag, a 22-year-old who lived his life online before announcing he would attempt the world’s highest peak, has garnered more than 34 million views with a documentary that covers his journey to the summit
Everything that has unfolded between the beginning and the end of this journey feels like the manifestation of an almost perfect dream. Above all, I want to express my deepest gratitude to you
Australian tycoon Aron D’Souza wants to organize the controversial Enhanced Games, a competition that still has no date or location, which sets out to test the limits of the human body by allowing performance-enhancing drugs
A group of amateur players falsely posed as the official national team at a tournament held in Perm. They were discovered after being trounced and now the question is how they were able to hoodwink the Russian and Colombian federations, and why
The team that’s accompanying the Spanish trail runner in his attempt to cross the Alps speaks with EL PAÍS. They discuss the logistics involved and the athlete’s special diet as he climbs 59 mountains in just two weeks. ‘He hasn’t lost any weight!’
The events begin on August 22 with a preliminary regatta, but the official competition starts on August 29. This year, Team New Zealand is the Defender
Body-shaming against female Olympians and other sportswomen is rife. Water polo player Paula Leitón is the latest to be subjected to intense physical scrutiny
The Argentine president’s spokesman excluded the soccer idol in a list of outstanding ‘lefties’ from sports and the arts, drawing criticism from relatives and former footballers, among others
The killing of the soccer player’s sister, Paola Salcedo, has placed a turbulent family relationship in the spotlight. Mother accused son of the crime, while the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office accuses the mother and sister of another murder at the beginning of the year
The instrument, reserved for gold medalists to sound at the Stade de France, has become a symbol of victory ahead of its installation in the renovated Notre-Dame cathedral
A new essay reconstructs the literary competition of the VIII Olympiad, which brought together Nobel Prize winners on the jury and participants such as Robert Graves and Henry de Montherlant to praise sporting heroism
Amid the Olympic Games in Paris, the deaths of Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima on K2 sheds light on the wild essence of an activity in which mistakes are paid for with lives