Longlist announcement for Writing Best Colour Piece
LAUSANNE, March 13, 2023 - 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.
Disclaimer: All names and information have been published as we have received them, for any corrections please contact us at info@aipsawards.com.
As stated in the Rule 8, the AIPS Awards organisers reserve the right to move an entry into another category when it would be more appropriate there.
Here are the selected works, in alphabetical order of country:
WRITING BEST COLOUR PIECE
Zabihullah Shahzaad (Afghanistan), They even want to kill you to prevent your participation in the Tokyo Paralympics – Zabihshahzaad.blogfa.com
Nedjemeddine Sidi Atmane (Algeria), Blailey, out from under the rubble again! - www.z-dz.com
Maher Mezahi (Algeria), The most important semifinal of Aliou Cissé’s career | Senegal are finally AFCON champions - New Frame | The Athletic
Pablo Amalfitano (Argentina), The last Vilas, 30 years later: “For him, everything was to win and win” - Página/12
Sebastian Fest (Argentina), Federer and Nadal, or everything a photo says (and hides) - Vanity Fair
Marcela Mora y Araujo (Argentina), Lionel Messi and Argentina look in harmony with World Cup dream alive - The Guardian
Sebastián Torok (Argentina), Federer. The elegance of a body in harmony: the legacy of the vulnerable tennis player who moved us - Diario La Nación
Alejandro Wall (Argentina), This final December - Tiempo Argentino
Anthony Edgar (Australia), The Athletes’ Voice (By Michelle Ford-Erickson and Anthony Edgar) - Oneshot Sport, Swimming Australia, Australian Schools Rugby Union
Jeremy Story Carter (Australia), Death of a Footy Club - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Samantha Lewis (Australia), Four months on, Afghanistan's women's national team are finding family and freedom on Australia's pitches | 'A bunch of ratbag, lesbian feminists': The coming-out story of the Adelaide Armpits, Australia's first LGBTQIA+ football club - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Julian Linden (Australia), The truth behind swimming's historic trans vote - News Corp Australia
Will Swanton (Australia), What a bloody privilege - The Australian
David Baumgartner (Austria), Sustainability in sport: Where Austrian sport stands and what it is already doing - Kleine Zeitung
Silvana Strieder (Austria), Hailed in the world, forgotten at home - Kurier
Kenan Mastaliyev (Azerbaijan), “Yellow-blue” squadron of Azerbaijan sport - Rekord.az
Marcus Alves (Brazil), Ricardo Quaresma: Portugal's flamboyant former star and his stand for Roma rights | Evangelicalism & Brazil: The religious movement that spread through a national team - BBC
Fernando Duarte (Brazil), Lea Campos: The Brazilian who battled prejudice & patriarchy to become a referee - BBC
Pedro Ramos (Brazil), Why China uses the Africa Cup of Nations to exert more influence on the continent - Estadão
Crisneive Silveira (Brazil), Autistic child creates his own World Cup album in the interior of Ceará - Diário do Nordeste
Kouagheu Josiane (Cameroon), AFCON 2022: “Football makes me forget the Boko Haram attacks for a few hours” - Le Monde Afrique
Ebai Enow, Njie Enow (Cameroon), Remembering Marco; The inspirational life, tragic death and legacy of Marc-Vivian Foé - The Blizzard
Devin Heroux (Canada), Inside the mind of Canada's Mikaël Kingsbury, the greatest moguls skier in history - CBC
Don Landry (Canada), Colin Hodgson's Year of Challenge - The Curling News/Sports illustrated
Natascia Lypny (Canada), Golden Opportunity - CBC Saskatchewan
Lee Reaney (Canada), Inside the IPC's About-Face on Banning Russia & Belarus - Lviv Today
Esteban Abarzua (Chile), They were all destined for greatness - Revista Tribuna Andes of Chile
Danilo Díaz (Chile), The penalty that was charged from Santiago - Revista Tribuna Andes
Carlos González Lucay (Chile), The Marcelo Ríos Method: his secrets as a coach - La Tercera
Li Li (China), Lulu ChenLu, dreams fulfilled after 30 years in Beijing 2022 - Ta Kungpao Daily
Wufei Yu (China), Eileen Gu: Normal Upbringing - Sanlian Life Week Magazine
Zhao Yu (China), A mountain village in Guizhou and its “village BA” - lanxiong sports
Osvaldo Hernández (Colombia), The $38 billion that entangles Mindeporte and the OEI - Diario La Patria de Manizales
Abraham Jiménez Enoa (Cuba), The impossible fight of Namibia Flores – Gatopardo
Sohad Elkhodary (Egypt), Cerebral palsy patients in Egypt...between dreams of heroism and lack of potential - Raseef22
Hasan Elsaadny (Egypt), Football for refugees in Egypt. Treasure of talents in the guarded land - pulpit.alwatanvoice.com
Reda Selim (Egypt), 100 years of "Arab sport"... achievements and “random women” - Alittihad newspaper
Salome Kharatishvili (Georgia), On that night, Romans believed that victory was possible - sportall.ge
Ronny Blaschke (Germany), Battles at the stadium, the stands in flames - Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ
Matthias Fiedler (Germany), Brake in the head | "Away from that devil" - Der Spiegel
Manuela Harant (Germany), The great sport taboo | Terrifying insights - Suedwest Presse
Sascha Staat (Germany), Dramatic. Historic. Bittersweet. - Ruhr Nachrichten
Ron Ulrich (Germany), Helmut Sonneberg: A spellbinder's story of survival, no longer kept secret – BBC
Peter Wenig (Germany), In the land of smiles – Peking.22 Magazine
Emmanuel Ayamga (Ghana), Bombs, fear, iffy survival: The escape story of Ghanaian footballers in war-torn Ukraine - Pulse Ghana
Esther Owusua Appiah-Fei (Ghana), 'I dreamed of representing Ghana in the Women's Africa Cup of Nations, instead I was beaten up' - The Telegraph UK
John Vigah (Ghana), Dealing with alleged ‘juju’ in the Black Stars - New Times Corporation
Raubil Gariba (Ghana), The rise and fall of former FIFA Council member Kwesi Nyantakyi : From prosperity to adversity - www.ghanasportsmarket.com
Bright Yaw Ofosu Larbi (Ghana), A Bronze medal that finds a place in history : The Story of Joseph Paul Amoah - TV3 Network
Reiner Germer (Honduras), The path of Honduran immigrant athletes in Spain - HonduSports Ilustrada
Zoltán Balogh (Hungary), Grab shot - csakfoci.hu
Jamie Alter (India), On daily allowance of Rs 100, Uttarakhand cricketers worse off than unskilled workers - News9
Santadeep Dey (India), India’s historic lawn bowls gold makes north London proud – Sportstar
Shail Desai (India), Jiya Rai takes her own route to the finish line | Everest: Why do people still climb the world's highest peak? - Mint Lounge
Tushar Dutt (India), The only thing I wish for is peace: Olena - The Times of India
Aayush Puthran (India), Alcoholic haze to rediscovering love for cricket - Ankola's flight to redemption - Cricbuzz
Sanket Jain (India), Using sports to recover from catastrophic flooding - Fansided
Amit Kamath (India), Anjum Moudgil opens up on feeling emotionally wrecked after Tokyo Olympics - News9 Digital
Rasesh Mandani (India), An Indian bookie in every (match) fix - Hindustan Times
Tahir Ibn Manzoor (India), Arif Khan is finally an Olympian, now he just wants to 'let the magic happen' – ESPN
Subodh Mayure (India), Maharashtra State Kabaddi captain cuts sugarcane for living - Print Media, Mid-day Infomedia Ltd, Mumbai
Sudarshan Narayanan (India), Ash Barty and the sublime lightness of being | Roger Federer: The master who waved a magic wand on court - The Hindu
Suvam Pal (India), Menstruation 'Is Just Girl Things': Are Chinese Sportspersons Mainstreaming 'Period' Taboo? - Outlook
Anand Vasu (India), Temba Bavuma: One in a Million - The Economic Times
Xaveria Yunita Melindasari (Indonesia), The profession of an F1 engineer is not as glamorous as one might imagine - Motorsport.com
Ali Rezaei Shahzade (Iran), Son of the port - Borna news agency
James Corbett (Ireland), Another Man City sponsor with seemingly no staff, no active products and being run out of a mailbox | The Building Legacy - Off The Pitch | The Blizzard, Issue 45
Daniel Mcdonnell (Ireland), Football Friends Reunited - Irish Independent
Kate Rowan (Ireland), Confessions of a rugby journeyman: Gloating rivals, money worries – and still loving the game - Telegraph Media Group
Alberto Dolfin (Italy), Gabriele, goalkeeper beyond the limits - La Stampa
Flavia Cappellini (Italy), First flight - The Gaza Sunbirds cycling team - Rouleur
Francesco Pietrella (Italy), Aduriz and the Athletic's philosophy: "We are like Asterix and Obelix against the Romans" - Cronache Di Spogliatoio
Valeria Rubino (Italy), Kobe Bryant's Italian heart - ViaggioSport
Bonface Osano (Kenya), Laventer Oguta, Africa’s kabaddi queen – New Frame
Emmanuel Sabuni (Kenya), Grace to grass: The sad story of Duncan 'Jamaica' Kibet - The Star Newspaper
Eduardo Enrique López Navarrete (Mexico), The Yucatan Sustainable Stadium has not seen the light of day for almost two years - Diario AS
Jesper Langbroek (Netherlands), Spicy Football: Watching a game between narcos in Mexico - SoccerNews
Arthur Renard (Netherlands), Exclusive interview Jürgen Klopp - Voetbal International
Madeleine Chapman (New Zealand), Finding Heath Davis - The Spinoff
Christopher Reive (New Zealand), The bullied kid who's aiming for the top of the world - NZME / New Zealand Herald
Oluwashina Okeleji (Nigeria), In African women’s football, homophobia still poses a barrier - Al Jazeera English
Ajibade Olusesan (Nigeria), Stamping doping out of Nigerian League - New Telegraph
Anders Christiansen (Norway), World Cup ticket to death - Verdens Gang
Bernt Jakob Oksnes (Norway), A sick skiing nation - Dagbladet
Sm Hussain (Pakistan), Ukraine, War and Cricket? - BOL NEWS
Beatrice Lauren Go (Philippines), Documents: How a Philippine sports system failed EJ Obiena – Rappler
Dariusz Dobek (Poland), He has no words to express what he feels - Onet.pl
Dariusz Faron (Poland), First victory, then psychiatric hospital - Wirtualna Polska
Andreea Giuclea (Romania), The Summer of David Popovici - DoR (Decât o Revistă)
Igor Sergeyev (Russia), Nigeria’s top football league is a mystery where teams almost never win away. A football anomaly - Sports.ru
Alexandra Vladimirova (Russia), Nadya Karpova: The Russia striker speaking out against war in Ukraine – BBC
Adrian Ephraim (South Africa), The athlete that God fuels | A long walk to cricket stardom for Keegan Petersen - New Frame
Daniel Gallan (South Africa), Solo's Journey - The Nightwatchman: The Wisden Cricket quarterly
José Ignacio Pérez Hernández (Spain), Children rescued by a balloon – Marca
Miguel Angel Lara Adán (Spain), Mercader, the Resistance cyclist – Marca
Sergio Alberruche (Spain), A miracle of past football - Diario AS
David Álvarez (Spain), Ukraine football war - El País
Xabier Fortes López (Spain), “I was shocked to see my knee cut from side to side” - Diario AS
Francisco Javier Carrión Molina (Spain), Leonas against Águilas, in the football match of the Saudi women who dream of Iniesta - El Independiente
Martín Mucha (Spain), Rafael Nadal, a story of pain - El Mundo
Carles Vila (Spain), Tekle Ghebrelul. An Eritrean coach in Greenland - Mundo Deportivo
Christof Gertsch (Switzerland), The best tennis player in the world is also the oldest - Das Magazin
Ali Haj Suleiman (Syria), Child workers play their own Champions League in Syria - Aljazeera.com
Chayanit Itthipongmaetee (Thailand), Women, fight! Historic bouts KO ban at Thailand’s oldest Muay Thai stadium - Coconuts Bangkok
Ilyes Ben Salah (Tunisia), Sports investigative journalism is captive to capital – Aljazeera
Ernest Akorebirungi (Uganda), Playing rugby despite being deaf & unable to speak: The incredible story of Isaac Mubarak Mubiru - Kawowo Sports
Kateryna Godunova (Ukraine), Story of Ukrainian high jumper Protsenko who escaped from the occupied Kherson region after 40 days - JSC “Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine”
Riath Al-Samarrai (UK), ‘They put me on suicide watch... I went to the station to step in front of a train’ - Daily Mail
Michael Aylwin (UK), Carl Hayman: ‘I was a commodity in rugby. Now I’m paying the price’ - The Guardian
Oliver Brown (UK), Goodbye, Dad - The Daily Telegraph
Jason Burt (UK), I was tear-gassed by disgraceful French riot police - The Daily Telegraph
Alex Bysouth (UK), The Lisbon derby: How Sporting versus Benfica became one of Europe's fiercest rivalries - BBC Sport
Pete Carvill (UK), Erik Skoglund: What is he wIlling to do? Part 1 | Erik Skoglund: What is he wIlling to do? Part 2 - NY Fights
Matias Grez (UK), ‘This is not saving, this is destruction’: Ukrainian MMA champion Yaroslav Amosov recounts the horrors of war - CNN
Jonathan Harding (UK), ‘I'll die with cancer and can't change it but I can change these people's lives’ - Racing Post
Sana Haq (UK), As war rages on at home, these young disabled Ukrainian swimmers are stranded in Turkey - CNN
Nick Hope (UK), From fighting for silverware, to fighting for survival - Viktoriia Marachuk - Ukrainian orphan, Para - Women's Sports Alliance (WSA)
Chris Howells (UK), Five Nations 1972: A championship abandoned & an emotionally charged return in Dublin - BBC Sport
Jenny Johnson (UK), Emiliano Sala: A tragic plane crash, a stain on football's reputation - BBC Cymru Wales
Matthew Kenyon (UK), Bibian Mentel-Spee: The life and legacy of a Paralympic legend (for BBC Sport) - BBC Sport
Simon Lowe (UK), Luis Figo: ‘I had everything at Barcelona – moving to Real Madrid took its toll’ - The Guardian
Duncan Mackay (UK), Emil Zatopek still haunted by Russians half a century after paying the prize for standing up to them - insidethegames.biz
Dan Palmer (UK), Sea voyages, rabbits and a 189-year-old tortoise - the story of sport in St Helena - insidethegames.biz
Steven Price (UK), The Business Behind Tottenham Hotspur's Preseason Korea Tour - Forbes
Paul Radley (UK), The rise of Shaheen Afridi - The National
George Ramsay (UK), Remembering Dave Wottle’s thrilling victory at the Munich Olympics, a race that still inspires and e - CNN International
Matt Rendell (UK), Juan Jose Florian: Colombia’s Para-cycling ‘superhero’ and his dramatic life story – BBC
Don Riddell (UK), Amir Assadollahzadeh: Fearing torture and possible execution, Iranian powerlifter quit team in Norway and ran for his life - CNN
Hannah Ryan (UK), Their club became the richest in the world. But these fans are worried at what it means for Newcastle - CNN
Karlo Tasler (UK), Graham Potter’s and My Debut on Stamford Bridge - Medium.com
Wil Treasure (UK), White Gold - A Cultural history of Climbing Chalk - UKClimbing.com
Matt Warwick (UK), Kelly Catlin: A family's search for answers on links between concussion and suicide – BBC
Sophie Williams (UK), Sergiy Stakhovsky: Ukrainian tennis player who returned to defend his country - BBC News
Jeremy Wilson (UK), Inside the Isle of Man TT: The world's deadliest race | From Ian Wright to Dame Laura Kenny, stars back new Telegraph campaign to close gender prize-money gap - The Telegraph
Suzanne Wrack (UK), ‘We felt newly born’: Afghan female footballers’ remarkable escape to UK - The Guardian
George Wright (UK), The team representing a lost homeland, 6,000 miles away - BBC
Sabra Boyd (USA), A 2,700-Mile Cycling Race Is Now Even More Extreme - New York Times
Tommy Delaunay (USA), Kate Sanborn found belonging with the marathon - FloSports / MileSplit
David Gardner (USA), How a former NBA player and activist became a far-right media darling - Washington Post
Omar Mohammed (USA), ‘The NBA has come to us’: inside basketball’s $1bn play for Africa - The Guardian
Cory Mull (USA), How one team in Buffalo healed in the face of tragedy - FloSports
Adam Williams (USA), An Indigenous Women’s Softball Team Beats Opponents, and male chauvinist | Landmines took their limbs. Soccer brought them glory. - The New York Times | National Geographic
Diego Domínguez (Uruguay), The story of the novice doctor who saved Maradona from his first death - El País Uruguay
Zinyange Auntony (Zimbabwe), Old-style scoreboard charm as Zimbabwe blast into T20 World Cup - France 24 via AFP
Farai Shawn Matiashe (Zimbabwe), What reduces child marriage and poverty? Ask Zimbabwe’s young chess queens - The Guardian
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT Following this longlist, we will announce the shortlist and subsequently the finalists.
The final ceremony will take place in Seoul on May 9, 2023.
Stay tuned for the rest of the longlists!