Top 10 Best Opinion Column nominees
LAUSANNE, April 1, 2026 - With less than two weeks left until the 8th edition of the AIPS Sport Media Awards ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland, AIPS is proud to announce the top ten candidates in the Writing Best Opinion Column category.
The finalists will be announced this week.
Find out more about the judging stages HERE.
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In alphabetical order by country and by surname, these are the nominees for the final. In some categories there might be more than 10 due to a tie in the third round voting stage by the Jury.
Ariel Scher (Argentina), La lección de Miguel / Miguel's lesson - La Diaria
Danilo Díaz (Chile), Horror, brutality and criminal negligence - Revista Tribuna Andes
Yixing Dong (China), Do androids dream of their own Olympics? - Xinhua News Agency
Tianhao Shen (China), A Zebra in the Oval Office: A Surreal Comedy of Power and Football - Titan Sports
Qinbo Wang (China), Football is Round, not Oval — A Letter to Gianni Infantino on the Meaning of the Game - Titan Sports Daily (including Football Weekly Magazine)
Roberto Ricardo Vasconcellos (Ecuador), Government intervention against autonomy of national sport - El Universo
Batoul Honari (Iran), Sound - tasvir 8
Francesco Caremani (Italy), Sinner, Italy’s Un-Italian Champion - today.it
Igor Rabiner (Russia), No pity for Promes. Pity for the people who made him their first idol - Sport-Express
Orfeo Suárez (Spain), The new King Louis joins the Revolution / El nuevo rey Luis se apunta a la revolución - El Mundo
Paul Radley (United Arab Emirates), Cricket is poorer because of ugly Asia Cup 2025, whatever its bank balance says - The National