Former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova has been suspended for four years for refusing an anti-doping test even though the Czech player cited “mental stress” and fear when the testing agent “rang my door late at night without properly identifying...
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Ukrainians are uniting in solidarity with Olympic skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified for wearing a helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's invasion.
With the closure of the Washington Post sports section, sports journalism lost one of its last crown jewels, and one of media's most prestigious professions was handed a crushing blow. Why it matters: The marquee platforms of sportswriting have been gutted and shuttered over the last decade — victims of cold, hard media business realities and the evolving demands of the modern sports fan. The big picture: There have never been more ways for sports fans to watch and learn about their favorite teams and players. But increasingly, those needs are met with content from non-journalists. - Services once supplied by beat reporters, columnists and feature writers are now performed by a constellation of podcast commentators, online fan…
With the closure of the Washington Post sports section, sports journalism lost one of its last crown jewels, and one of media's most prestigious professions was handed a crushing blow. Why it matters: The marquee platforms of sportswriting have been gutted and shuttered over the last decade — victims of cold, hard media business realities and the evolving demands of the modern sports fan. The big picture: There have never been more ways for sports fans to watch and learn about their favorite teams and players. But increasingly, those needs are met with content from non-journalists. - Services once supplied by beat reporters, columnists and feature writers are now performed by a constellation of podcast commentators, online fan…Open