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Global Voices - Sports

Cricket's greatest all-rounder, Barbados' Sir Garfield Sobers, dies at 89

21 days ago

Nationalistic performance versus Bushido traditions: Debates over Japanese cleanup at the 2026 FIFA World Cup

21 days ago

Haiti's 'Grenadiers' bring hope and joyful moments at World Cup 2026

21 days ago

When surveillance becomes part of the landscape

21 days ago

Brazil will feature the number 24 on the pitch during World Cup 2026. And that carries a message

21 days ago

Introducing kobudo, Japan's traditional martial arts

5 months ago

Morocco, AFCON, and the controversies that trailed Africa's biggest football event

7 months ago

Pitching power: Unpacking the T20 Cricket World Cup crisis between Bangladesh and India

7 months ago

The table tennis players planting trees to fight drought in Iran

8 months ago

Year in Review: How the Caribbean survived 2025

8 months ago

Wheelchair user completes historic bungee jump in Nepal

8 months ago

Jamaican bobsledders bring unexpected joy to an island beset with post-hurricane stress

9 months ago

The return of Kokpar as Kazakhstan's modern national sport

10 months ago

Caribbean athletes shine at the 2025 World Athletics Championships

11 months ago

Can technology help settle disputes over Kendo scoring?

1 year ago

Melissa Koby becomes first Black US Open theme artist, and honours Althea Gibson by channelling her own Jamaican grandmother

1 year ago

Nepali music for an Everest-sized challenge

1 year ago

Climbing a virtual Everest with the Global Voices community playlist

1 year ago

Not your grandma's Tai Chi: Master Sun reveals the truth behind the flow

1 year ago

How the number 27 blew away West Indies cricket

1 year ago

Turkish tennis player Zeynep Sönmez leaves Wimbledon with pride

1 year ago

Uzbekistan's football success serves as a stand in for promised reforms

1 year ago

The political meaning of football: From Salazar's playbook to Iran's stadiums

1 year ago

Kendo 101: A beginner's guide to Japanese sword fighting

1 year ago

The last masters of Afro-Colombian machete fencing fight to save their tradition

1 year ago