Sports may be conceived as an independent activity isolated from the world, meant to be enjoyed and played without outside preconceptions interfering with its athletic “purity,” but the fact remains that sport may be one of the most potent political instruments we have in the modern world.
It is time that sporting bodies, athletic companies, and players themselves recognize the weight of responsibility on their shoulders and embrace the mantle of political expression fully. Sports cannot be sanitized away from the world in some abstract space; it is played in the context of everything that is happening in........