Shortlist Writing Best Column 2024
LAUSANNE, April 3, 2025 - The AIPS Sport Media Awards are pleased to announce the shortlist for the Writing Best Column category.
Find out more about the judging stages HERE.
Below are the selected works, in alphabetical order of country:
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WRITING BEST COLUMN
Nazim Bessol (Algeria), La médaille de la mémoire - Botola
Andres Burgo (Argentina), Cada vez más jugadores son captados por el negocio de apuestas y salen a la cancha a perder - El Diario Ar
Cristian Grosso (Argentina), La muerte de César Luis Menotti: el legado que dejó la convivencia entre el sabio y el revolucionari - Diario La Nación
Marcela Mora y araujo (Argentina), El Exito es Un Abismo - Revista Anfibia
Ariel Scher (Argentina), Menotti, ese legado poético - Revista Acción
Shireen Ahmed (Canada) French hijab ban in sports called a 'shameful moment' as it prepares to host Olympics - CBC Sports
Robert Livingstone (Canada), Moving Olympic cricket from Los Angeles to New York gives us rare window into what’s really going on - GamesBids.com
Tianhao Shen (China), A United Euro 2024, an Ununited Europe - Titan Sports
Johnattan Farouk Caballero Hernández (Colombia), Lo que le debo al "Búcaros" de Dudamel - El Espectador. Director Fidel Cano.
Roberto Ricardo Vasconcellos (Ecuador), Ecuador: Periodismo deportivo ‘romántico’ e inteligente vs. periodismo ‘táctico’ - El Universo
Alaa Abdel-ghani (Egypt), Home stadium without a home - Al-Ahram Newspaper
Hasan Elsaadny (Egypt), Football Casino… Betting in Egypt is a cancer that invades cafes and homes… Murders and thefts, the bankruptcy bill… - Youm7.com
Jean-Michel Brochen (France), Terrain meurtri - L'Equipe Le Magazine
Fiifi Anaman (Ghana), Why the Black Stars deserve to fail - Africa Is A Country
Péter Csillag (Hungary), The discarded football poem - Nemzeti Sport
Philip Lanigan (Ireland), When sport speaks truth to power - Irish Daily Mail
Adil Azeroual (Morocco), La Botola des Affranchis - Le360 Sport
Cătălin Țepelin (Romania), Sport is for pleasure, not by fear - How to protect our children from abuse in sport - GOLAZO.ro
Cătălin Tolontan (Romania), "Football fans converted into gamblers" - How some want to change the role of the media - GOLAZO.ro
Nikolay Yaremenko (Russia), Sports in parallel reality - RosBalt
Fawaz Alshareef (Saudi Arabia), Bread on Bach and Gianni's table - Okaz newspaper
Salvador Rodríguez Moya (Spain), Racismo gitano en el fútbol internacional - Canal Sur Radio y TV
Orfeo Suárez (Spain), Luther King and Pelé in the same t-shirt - El Mundo
Mohamed Osman Adam (Sudan), In Sudan, once more sports transcend all tragedies, bring hope to people - The Pan-African News Agency (PANA)
Oliver Brown (UK), I was barred from big fight after criticising Saudi sportswashing - The Daily Telegraph
Fred Garratt-Stanley (UK), ‘North Korea can own a club’: How fans grew to defend sportswashing - The Guardian
Emma Smith (UK), Transgender chess decision: New Fide rules criticised by players but welcomed by committee chair - BBC Sport
Vitas Carosella (USA), Fossil Fuel Companies Spend $5.6 Billion To Advertise in Sports - Forbes