#Olympics

Mark Doidge

markdoidge

“Sport... has rarely been a space for activism” is factually incorrect. From Modern sport’s inception it has been a space for activism and political engagement. 1/15https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1341286828356341766 Working class p

Sasha Hemon

SashaHemon

A true story:At the time of the 1984 Olympic games in Sarajevo, I was serving in the Yugoslav People's fucking Army in deep Macedonia. Before the snow storm arrived in

Tom Smith

TomSmithGerman

I won't retweet it, but I'm interested to know what @Olympics and IOC press team thought they were doing sharing footage from the 1936 Berlin Olympics in Nazi Germany w/flippant

Kurtis

fromkurtis

Some perspective in a quote from Bill Byrne, the founder of the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL), back in early 1979:"Some day when we're in our rocking chairs and girls

Douglas Connors -- Decency First FFS! (he/him)

calmecam

1. @ErinOToole is fixated on #China as a bad global actor.That's fine.However, on this issue, he keeps stupidly, demanding #PMTrudeau extend his neck for his (and Canada's) decapitation.#CdnPoli 2. First,

🟥Children are entitled to be safeguarded.

teaandabikkie

1st step in the grooming process is spotting someone vulnerable like someone who has been abused in the past. The 6 recognised steps are..Finding a victim (targeting)Gain trustHelp the victimIsolate

Masih Alinejad 🏳️

AlinejadMasih

THREAD1-The International @Olympics Committee (IOC) has decided to suspend the authoritarian President of Belarus, Lukashenko, from Olympic Games. We, as members of #United4Navid fully support this decision and hope that

Dubois

CFCDUBois

Last time we sacked a young manager mid season? 2012Last time Liverpool lost back to back home league games? 2012Last time we drew 0-0 at home v Spurs? 2012Last time

L.r. 🔆

revuntelevised

Zócalo asks, "Can we build a better Summer Olympics?"Welcome to the mega-thread of *reasons why the Olympics should immediately fuck off forever*https://twitter.com/ThePublicSquare/status/1271587145220669440 "The six Summer

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lylastanx

An update on the Uyghur Muslims in China. A thread; Uyghurs have been prohibited from: - fasting during Ramadan - attending mosques - naming children certain muslim names - wearing

Matthew Willis

MattRacquet

Google search interest for tennis since 2004Follows pretty similar pattern year after year, biggest combined peak of search interest for Roland Garros and Wimbledon because they share a month (June),

#BREATHEAct

_AshDashLee_

Friendly reminder:1) The storm’s been impactful across the South. Texas is bad, & fam in Mississippi, Arkansas & Louisiana are hurting & need support. Don’t set folks up to play

grapejelly

Jupiter_Sky

“I watched that war on TV“..powerful to say with the images shown in the film.. the disconnect. Also the vast symbolism of death. Inc the owl shirt Alice wears(current state)

Sergey Radchenko

DrRadchenko

After the @bellingcat investigation revealed FSB involvement in @navalny's poisoning, there are calls for urgent tough measures against Russia, ranging from new extensive sanctions to expelling Russia from international organisations.

Tennis World 🎾

secondserves

In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Nadal and Djokovic met in the semifinal. Whoever went through to the final would be the massive favorite and the match reflected both men’s will

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HayleyDLondon

my Dad works with refugees, and has argued with people till blue in the face who say 'they get houses, money, everything etc' when he is like NO THEY FUCKING

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