Exuberant jubilation: Sprinter Gina Lückenkemper wins EM gold.
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Especially after a year like 2022 with war, epidemics and crises, you need some good news. With a bit of imagination, you can actually find them in sports.
KCan that exist? An annual review that only consists of good news? And that in a year of epidemics, a crisis, a war? On the other hand: Especially after a year like 2022, you need some good news. With a bit of imagination, you can actually find them in sports.
The sole of the shoe
The Commonwealth Games aren’t the hub of the sporting world, but they’re a big deal every four years, at least in the countries that were once the British Empire. That was also the case in Birmingham in 2022. There was a badminton preliminary round going on when one of the two players had a mishap. Jamaica’s Samuel Ricketts split the sole of a shoe. He was about to give up, he didn’t have a spare pair.
