Longlist announcement for Writing Best Colour Piece
LAUSANNE, March 17, 2024 - The AIPS Sport Media Awards are pleased to announce the longlist for the Writing Best Colour Piece category.
The longlist represents the first judging stage and is based on the average ratings of the AIPS panel of specialists, the Executive Committee members and the members of the Jury.
Find out more about the judging stages HERE.
Participants with two submissions in the longlist can find both listed side by side. Here are the selected works, in alphabetical order of country:
Disclaimer: All names and information have been published as we have received them, for any corrections please contact us at info@aipsmedia.com or send us a direct message on social media @aipsmedia.
WRITING BEST COLOUR PIECE
Salma Niazi (Afghanistan), Salma Niazi: A beacon of resilience and hope for Afghan women - The Afghan Times
Andres Burgo (Argentina), The cup that Messi lifts in the most iconic photo of the Qatar World Cup is fake - El País
Sebastian Fest (Argentina), Guillermo Vilas's obsession with being recognised as the best tennis player in the world in 1977 - Vanity Fair
Julián Marcel (Argentina), Rise and decline of the boxer sponsored by Bilardo - Torneos
Sebastian Torok (Argentina), Yannick Noah. Acrobatic, artistic, charismatic and winner, the last French male champion of Roland Garros - Diario La Nacion de Argentina
Alejandro Wall (Argentina), Mundial Messi, un héroe para la posteridad - Tiempo Argentino
Samantha Lewis (Australia), The France game: Matildas' World Cup quarterfinal win was a moment that stopped the nation - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Julian Linden (Australia), One Last Time - The Saturday Telegraph
David Mark (Australia), "After almost 30 years, these women are finally seeing justice": The investigation into serial paedo - ABC
Amanda Shalala (Australia), Football in their DNA - ABC Sport
Jeremy Story Carter (Australia), Kick in hope - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Olaf Brockmann (Austria), The Transcontinental Coach: Juan Carlos Zabala and his forgotten Master - Journal of Olympic History
Martin Schauhuber (Austria), "Who likes Bollywood dancing?": How the workers of Doha experience the World Cup - Der Standard
Silvana Strieder (Austria), Third break in the air raid shelter - Kurier
Shishir Hoque (Bangladesh), A promise not kept in 32 years - Dhaka Tribune
Camila Alves (Brazil), Mothers of the World Cup: how the tournament advances maternity rights in football - Grupo Globo
Tébaro Schmidt Bechtlufft (Brazil), We've took a ride with a Libertadores champion - Globo
Devin Heroux (Canada), The McIntosh sisters lean on family to reach their Olympic-sized dreams | Marco Arop's Olympic dream takes shape in the heart of Dixie - CBC
Dustin Patar (Canada), Qimuksiq - Canadian Geographic
Cesar Campos (Chile), Tatán Luchsinger: "No me da vergüenza contar que ahora trabajo como recolector de basura" - Diario Las Últimas Noticias
Antonio Valencia (Chile), Wagner Salinas, el trágico final del boxeador escolta de Salvador Allende - Diario El Mercurio
Peng Gao (China), A son helps his late father complete a 100-marathon dream - Xinhua News Agency, China
Xingying Tao (China), (Exclusive) From street to Olympics, how X-Rain transforms into a Chinese breaking pioneer? - Xinmin Evening News
Wufei Yu (China), A Soccer Experiment in China's Rural Mountainous West - Zmconnect
Zhao Yu (China), Ma Baoguo: a Fake Kongfu Master - Lanxiong Sports
Reda Selim (Egypt), Muscle Mania... between facts and fiction! - Alittihad newspaper
Olivier Bossard (France), On a retrouvé Jean-François Hernandez - France Football
Jean-Michel Brochen (France), Bobby Charlton, an immense reign - L'Equipe Le Magazine
Quentin Moynet (France), Les galériens du tennis / Welcome to the jungle - L'Equipe
Quentin Raverdy (France), Les fantômes du Mezzogiorno - Raffut magazine
Alban Traquet (France), A la recherche de Christian Atsu - L'Equipe
Jana Gioia Baurmann (Germany), Legionnaires for the fifth league - Zeit Online
Ronny Blaschke (Germany), The whole of India is eagerly awaiting the Cricket World Cup - NZZ
Matthias Fiedler (Germany), The survivors – Der Spiegel
Patrick Kleinmann (Germany), After the Big Bang - Kicker
Fiifi Anaman (Ghana), Your Legacy Lives On - Medium
Emmanuel Ayamga (Ghana), The rise of Mohammed Kudus, pride of Nima and Ghana’s golden boy - Pulse Ghana
Kwame Boakye (Ghana), Dream-Believe-Achieve: The story of Kofi Kyereh - Pulse
Andrew Mcnicol (Hong Kong), This North Korean player stunned the soccer world – then disappeared | Xi Jinping wanted China to be a global soccer power. What went wrong? - CNN
Attila Szalay (Hungary), Down here, football is not just a game, it can save lives - Magyar Nemzet
Shail Desai (India), From India, Through Belgium, to World Cup Gold: One Climber’s Journey to the Top of Paraclimbing - Climbing.com
Sanket Jain (India), How climate change is ending the sporting dreams of India’s young - Telegraph
Manuja Veerappa (India), Stripped of her Asian Games medal and banned from competing, Santhi Soundarajan is now pushing ahead - The Times of India
Mahdi Beshkani (Iran), Against censorship! - Hichomiha.blogfa.com
Saeedeh Fathabadi (Iran), A place that was no more Iran; the encounter of an imprisoned journalist with a refugee athlete - Iranwire
Masumeh Moumivand (Iran), Iranian motorcycle girls jumping over stereotypes - Isna
Malachy Clerkin (Ireland), The Life And Death Of Red Óg Murphy - The irish Times
Mark Gallagher (Ireland), Baby Steps - Irish Daily Mail/Irish Mail on Sunday
Itay Goder (Israel), Asher Iyasu, Champion | I had no choice - McKellar magazine | Frankfurter Allgemeine
Pierbattista Bergonzi (Italy), Roberto Baggio interview - La Gazzetta dello Sport
Alberto Dolfin (Italy), Ukraine and Russia, frost on the piste but confrontation without masks - Corriere dello Sport
Alessandro Poggi (Italy), Manuel Bortuzzo: Olympic hopeful on overcoming fateful shooting to continue chasing dream as a Para - Olympic Channel
Aigerim Konurbaeva (Kyrgyzstan), Fighting for recognition. How women in Central Asia are making their way into the martial arts – Cabar.Asia
Bassem Raouas (Lebanon), Yemenis at Asian Games divided by war, united by sport - AFP
Eduardo López Navarrete (Mexico), Sunrise in Ukraine - Diario AS
Nathaniel Parish Flannery (Mexico), The Trials of Time: Marlen Reusser Profile - Cyclist magazine
Aissa El Gamhi (Morocco), Mothers and fathers of the Atlas Lions tell details of the joy of achievement and their relationship with their children - Al Sabah Newspaper
Idris Shehu (Nigeria), Olusosun: Inside Lagos slum where Victor Osimhen was raised - Cable Newspaper
Anders Christiansen (Norway), The war over the Olympics - Verdens Gang
Yahya Al-Yaqoubi (Palestine), In pictures, Youssef Abu Amira... without his four limbs, he defied the “karate” law. - Palestine Newspaper
Piotr Przyborowski (Poland), He was an internet meme fan, but became the president of his beloved club. He has already made history - Meczyki.pl, Warta Poznań
Jose Encarnacion (Puerto Rico), La otra recta final de los caballos en el Hipódromo Camarero - Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
Pavel Lysenkov (Russia), "Dad, I see my dreams. And in them, there is ice, and I am playing hockey". This is how Rodion Amir - Match TV
Aissatou Diene (Senegal), Senegal: The mystical gangrenous practice of local football - Challengesports.info
Stefan Kosanović (Serbia), Sports psychologist Sasa Sredanovic falsely presents herself to the public - Seecheck
Daniel Gallan (South Africa), Gambling addiction: Why elite sportspeople are especially vulnerable - BBC
Manuel Calabuig Garcia (Spain), The race against ALS - Corredor
Santiago Castañeda Heredia (Spain), La última frontera del dron deportivo - Diario AS | AS Televisión
José Ignacio Pérez Hernández (Spain), The murderous 'sport' in Auschwitz: "It was the first step towards extermination" - Marca
Nahed Albageir (Sudan), Murder and abuses against Her Majesty's court - Alsudaninews
Mohamed Osman Adam (Sudan), Sudan conflict: Impact of war on journalists and media professionals - Sudan News agency/Panafrican News Agency
Laurent Favre (Switzerland), We found Mark Kangogo, the doping winner of Sierre-Zinal - Le Temps
Christof Gertsch (Switzerland), The Merman - Das Magazin
Mohamed Rami Abdelmoula (Tunisia), In Tunisia: Power and the Public Contend over the Football Field - Assafir Al-Arabi
Fred Mwambu (Uganda), The game that cannot be trusted: the Mbale Heroes-Admin Saga - Daily Monitor
Kateryna Makarevska (Ukraine), "I want to live!" Invictus Games athlete Volodymyr Tovkys survived after being shot in the head and found hope in sports – Suspilne Media
Natalie Berry (UK), Mountain man: the miraculous life of Reinhold Messner, the world’s most controversial climber - The Independent
Andrew Binner (UK), Jennifer Lozano: The Texas "troublemaker" inspiring women to chase their dreams - Olympics.com
Oliver Brown (UK), Eternal Pele communes with his disciples in final farewell - The Daily Telegraph
Jason Burt (UK), Erling Haaland exclusive interview: It is more shocking to people when I do not score | How south coast club became the talk of the elite - The Telegraph
Alex Bysouth (UK), Naples: A city on the brink as Napoli close in on first title in 33 years - BBC Sport
Ben Church (UK), ‘I was scared about my family:’ Why two Ukrainian footballers keep playing despite Russia’s invasion - CNN
Will Coldwell (UK), Inside the wild ‘Man vs Horse’ race that made a small Welsh town legend - Financial Times
Andrew Downie (UK), Pele was no Muhammad Ali, but critics of his stance on racism are misguided - The Times
Piers Edwards (UK), Salif Keita: How Mali's 'Black Panther' became a pioneering icon - BBC
Matias Grez (UK), Bob Marley instilled a love of soccer in his daughter, Cedella. Now she’s changing the lives of women - CNN
Jo Gunston (UK), Hannah Snellgrove – folk singer, Cambridge graduate and Paris 2024 sailing hopeful talks to Olympics - Olympics.com
William Imbo (UK), Edy Tavares: The Giant of Cape Verde poised to make history at the 2023 FIBA World Cup - Olympics.com
Aimee Lewis (UK), Wrexham: An intoxicating tale of Hollywood glamor and sporting romance - CNN
Mark Lomas (UK), Tunisian Tennis Player Ons Jabeur: “It’s Important That Arabs Show Each Other That We Can Make It” | Becoming Unstoppable: Aaliyah Powell - Vogue Arabia | Red Bulletin Magazine
James Montague (UK), A Spanish Team Endures on a Toehold in Africa - The New York Times
Jack Murley (UK), Josh Cavallo: I try to turn death threats into a positive - BBC
George Ramsay (UK), How a world champion triathlete earned an Oscar nomination - CNN
Issy Ronald (UK), How Nikki Hiltz is making running more inclusive for LGBTQ people - CNN
Kate Rowan (UK), First she was sectioned, then put in a coma, now Abi Burton is aiming for Paris Olympics - Telegraph Media Group
Hannah Ryan (UK), Women’s World Cup 2023: Some of the game’s top players are absent. And it’s because of the same injury issue - CNN
Matt Warwick (UK), ‘African King’ Biniam Girmay is leading a revolution in cycling - BBC
Sophie Williams (UK), Six sporting lives lost - 'We will not forgive, or forget' - BBC News
Jeremy Wilson (UK), The real Bobby and Jack Charlton - by their younger brother Tom - The Telegraph
Suzanne Wrack (UK), Holding gymnastics to account – why one alleged victim of sexual abuse is speaking out - The Guardian
Scott Bregman (USA), Simone Biles on letting go, twisting again, and having no regrets: 'What success means to me is diff - Olympics.com
David Gardner (USA), Gunshots shattered her hoop dreams. Now she wants them back. - Washington Post
Cory Mull (USA), Noor's Pursuit: A Young Muslim Woman's Fight For Equality - FloSports
Brian Pinelli (USA), An Italian Cowboy: The Remarkable Story of 1960 Olympian Battista "Tita" Pordon - Ski Racing Media
Abdulaziz Hadi (Yemen), Osama Al-Asadi, rising star despite war and siege - almawqapost.net