DIRS.INFO top alerts submit data jurnalism about API
login
Top related persons:
Top related locs:
Top related orgs:

Search resuls for: "CNN Sport’s Amanda Davies"


3 mentions found


☆ How Qatar ended up hosting the World Cup
  + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
CNN —With the World Cup now underway in Qatar, many are wondering how this moment arrived – that a tiny Gulf nation with little footballing history ended up hosting the biggest event the sport has to offer. The country’s World Cup debut was 12 years in the making, a period in which Qatar’s host status has stirred controversy within the footballing community and beyond. Those included a lack of existing infrastructure and the region’s intense heat in the summer, when World Cup tournaments are traditionally held. But questions about just how Qatar won the right to stage the World Cup continue. Meanwhile, Qatar’s state-backed discrimination against LGBTQ people has also been criticized in the years leading up to the World Cup.
☆ Isaac Humphries: 'I'm essentially starting a new life,' says the only openly gay man playing top-flight basketball
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Amanda Davies George Ramsay | Amanda Davies | George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
Humphries, who plays for Melbourne United in Australia’s National Basketball League, had never previously spoken publicly about his sexuality out of fear it would negatively impact his career. But now, he says he feels ready to “live my true life” and become the world’s only openly gay man playing top-flight basketball. Humphries joined Melbourne United in July this year. “I have a weight lifted off my shoulders, 25 years of weight,” says Humphries. “I’m essentially starting a new life – it’s like a birthday,” he adds.
☆ Vladyslav Heraskevych: Ukrainian skeleton star goes from Winter Olympics to war zone in weeks
  + stars: | 2022-03-23 | by ( Jack Bantock Amanda Davies Lizete Dos Santos For Cnn | Jack Bantock | Amanda Davies | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
CNN —Last month, Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych was a skeleton racer hurtling his way around the Yanqing Sliding Centre at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Heraskevych holds a sign with a message reading 'No war in Ukraine' during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in February. Till the end, till the 24th of February, all Ukraine and the whole world expects that world war doesn’t start – it’s an absolutely crazy feeling. “I can’t understand why they stay quiet or why they support this war,” Heraskevych said. “They are very powerful tool of Russian politics and propaganda and when these people support war, a lot of people in Russia also start to support this war,” Heraskevych said.
<< prev 1 next >>
Total: 3