We do not really cover sports here at Gript, so it is a delight to be able to write about my beloved Formula One under the guise of writing about the latest evidence that Ireland’s overly cautious pandemic policies are insane. There are two questions here: First, will Max Verstappen embarrass reigning seven-time world champion […]
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Imagine a situation where some country – let us say China, since they’re not historically averse to training Olympic athletes from childhood – was found to have provided masses of testosterone to its female weightlifters from the ages of 12 to 25 while training them to enter the Olympic weightlifting competition later in life. In […]
Straightforward question, really, and one worth talking about a little bit. Fans of football will have tuned in, last night, to the European Championship clash between Denmark and Belgium in Copenhagen, and seen the host nation lose 2-1. They will also have seen a live, in person, outdoor attendance of some 40,000 football fans. Why, […]
The Culture wars are currently raging across a number of different battlegrounds in the Western World, against the backdrop and sometimes intertwined narrative of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the variable responses to it. In recent weeks, Sport in all its forms has become embroiled in the Transgender debate including but not limited to the comments […]
The GAA, according to rule 1.11 of its constitution and rules, is a non-party political organisation. That means, in short, that it does not get involved in, or take sides in, matters of political controversy. The rule has some leeway built into it, as nearly every rule in Ireland does: Non party political does not […]
Controversy has erupted after New Zealand trans weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, who was born male, now looks set to make history by taking part in the women’s super heavyweight weightlifting category in the Olympics. Despite being 43 years old, considered long past the peak of strength in competitive weightlifting, Hubbard won silver at the 2017 world championships. While some […]
As a Monaghan native, let me reassure the rest of the country of one thing: All this additional training will not make too much of a difference. We’ll still likely get dumped out of the championship by Cavan at the first hurdle: Video footage has emerged purportedly showing members of the Monaghan senior football team […]
Ah come on now: Scientists say surfaces such as park benches are less of a transmission route for Covid-19; likewise picking it up from a passing jogger, although it is best to avoid their slipstream https://t.co/ekTcnyabwA — RTÉ News (@rtenews) April 6, 2021 Scientists say surfaces such as park benches are also less of a […]
Sports stars in Northern Ireland have called for a “re-opening” of children’s sports, after a top expert confirmed that he was “not aware” of any cases of Covid-19 being transmitted between children playing football outdoors. More than 50 top players from GAA, soccer, rugby and more, signed a letter urging the Northern Ireland Executive to give […]
It’s been five years since the last Olympic games, in Rio de Janeiro. That’s already a year too long, because they were due to be held in Tokyo last summer, before Covid intervened. The plan at the time was to push them back a year, and hold them this summer instead. Alas, nope, says the […]
This weekend, as has become completely normal over the space of the past few months, the players of Millwall and Derby County, prior to kickoff in their Sky Bet Championship game, took a knee in the middle of the field, to protest racism. And the crowd, of just 2,000 supporters, booed them. The sporting media, […]