LAUSANNE, February 19, 2022 – The AIPS Sport Media Awards are pleased to announce the longlist for the Writing Best Colour 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.
Here are the selected works, in alphabetical order of country:
WRITING BEST COLOUR PIECE
Nadjib Djoudi (Algeria), Tizi Ouzou, Douira and Baraki stadiums… the other side of sports corruption – Akher Saa
Ayache Senouci (Algeria), The world champion Samira Maqrani .. From the glory of «Campo» to the «battle» of cancer! – Kooradz.com
Sebastian Ignacio Torok (Argentina), Mayer, a sensitive tennis player. Glory at Davis, panic attacks and the match that nearly killed him – La Nacion Newspaper
Tracey Holmes (Australia), Afghanistan’s Female Athletes Find Refuge in Australia – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Julian Linden and Craig Lord (Australia), Troubled Waters – The Daily Telegraph
Amanda Shalala (Australia), Getting back on track – ABC News
Martin Schauhuber (Austria), Gene doping and penalty boxes: What football could look like in the year 2050 – Der Standard
Lukas Zahrer (Austria), Queen of the Waves: The story of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel – Der Standard
Marcus Alves (Brazil), Wildfires: How Portuguese club Tondela drove through the flames – BBC
Teddy Katz (Canada), Sport turns darkness into light for Syrian refugee athlete | The journey: from being bullied, to fleeing war in Afghanistan to competing at Tokyo 2020 – International Paralympic Committee
Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber (Canada), Exclusive – Belarusian sprinter decided to defect on way to the airport over safety fears | Exclusive -Olympics-Belarusian sprinter says she was taken to airport against her wishes, will not return home – Reuters
Carlos González Lucay (Chile), Gonzalo Lama’s battles – Diario La Tercera
Wufei Yu and Will Ford (China), 172 Runners Started This Ultramarathon – 21 of Them Never Came Back – Runner’s World
Hugo Mario Cárdenas López (Colombia), Dirty ball – Diario El País
Walid Farouk (Egypt), Arab football talents are drowning in the «sea of laziness” – Alroeya.com
Mostafa Hosny (Egypt), ‘Pay to play’, the business of materialistic private clubs kills young football talents. – Madamasr.com
Essam Shaheen (Egypt), Salah’s full Journey.. Reaching glory from the narrow angle – Filgoal.com
Reda Selim and Murad Al-Masri (Egypt/Jordan), Corona affects the body of Arab sports! (1-3 – Reda Selim) – Murad Al-Masry – Alittihad.ae
Pierre-Philippe Berson (France), Shark island – Society
Jean-Michel Brochen (France), Didier Deschamps: «At night, when you are a coach, there are people in your head» – L’Equipe
Achim Dreis (Germany), On the mat – Faz.net
Matthias Fiedler (Germany), As if I had lost my soul – Der Spiegel
Thomas Weiß (Germany), No trace of World Championship euphoria – Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag
Peter Wenig (Germany), Blind trust – 2020magazin.de
Bhavya Dore (India), Champions | India’s Siddis and the Olympic dream – The Juggernaut / Jgnt.co
Sanket Jain (India), In Kolhapur: wrestlers’ diets, weighty problems – Ruralindiaonline.org
Amit Kamath (India), The many duels of Bhavani Devi – Firstpost.com
Deepti Patwardhan (India), Walkover: The story of India’s Davis Cup default v South Africa – Fiftytwo.in
Pradip Saha (India), The fall of Sushil Kumar and Indian wrestling – The Morning Context
Saeedeh Fathabadi (Iran), Six days in the life of an Afghan female football player fleeing the Taliban / From Kabul to Melbourne – Shahraranews.ir / Hamshahri Javan Magazine
Malachy Clerkin (Ireland), After a devastating acid attack, Tega Agberhiere has sights set on the top – Irishtimes.com
Lorenzo Longhi (Italy), Nobody ever cheers for the ref – Quattrotretre.it
Filippo Maria Ricci (Italy), Iñaki Williams, the Black Basque | Shots of a manager – SportWeek – Sportweek / La Gazzetta dello Sport
Flavio Vanetti (Italy), «Thanks to Luna and Madhi I made peace with the Games. But I’m not going back as an athlete» – Corriere della Sera
Roy Tomizawa (Japan), The challenge and significance of Tokyo2020: Inspiration, gut check and a dream to bring the world together – Tokyoupdates.metro.tokyo.lg.jp
Christel Saneh (Lebanon), Cathy Freeman: Running for her people – Worldathletics.org
Marco Knippen (Netherlands), #MeToo in Latin dance: assaulted out of the spotlight – Noordhollands Dagblad / Mediahuis
Dana Johannsen (New Zealand), The mystery of Mrs Muir – Stuff.co.nz
Anders Christiansen (Norway), Sexual abuse in Norwegian sports: How the system didn’t protect the kids – Verdens Gang
Trygve Ulriksen Skogseth (Norway), China’s Fast Track to the Olympics – Scmp.com
Dariusz Faron (Poland), Remember you are nobody – Wirtualna Polska
Jose Encarnacion (Puerto Rico), Hipodromo Camarero: A money machine that runs with injured and mistreated horses – Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
Andreea Giuclea (Romania), How to stand up on your own – Lead.ro
Alexandra Vladimirova (Russia), The one who does not jump is the Englishman. Italians are celebrating. England fans are crying. Medu – Meduza.io
Daniel Gallan (South Africa), Sport and the climate crisis: Part 1 and 2 – Newframe.com
Brenden Nel (South Africa), An Olympic champion without a medal – Newframe.com
Francisco Cabezas (Spain), Fali: «Being a gipsy is the best thing that has happened to me in life» – El Mundo
José Ignacio Martínez Rodríguez (Spain), Football in the absence of everything – Revista Panenka
José Ignacio Pérez Hernández (Spain), The man in chains to whom football helped to survive – Marca
David Ramiro (Spain), Ibrahim Hamadtou, without arms and without limits for sport – Diariolibre.com
Albert Masnou Suriñach (Spain), An hour at Leo Messi’s house in Paris – Sport Newspaper / Sport.es
Christof Gertsch (Switzerland), Who I Am – The Untold Story of Martina Hingis – Das Magazin
Ilyes Ben Salah (Tunisia), African club fans saved their team from a suffocating crisis – Skonic.com
Riath Al-Samarrai (UK), The Blessed Boxer – Daily Mail
Natalie Berry (UK), Olympic Climbers are Learning from Monkeys – Wired.co.uk
Chris Bevan (UK), The Impossible Dream? – Bbc.co.uk
Oliver Brown (UK), Biles emerges from private hell for one last show of brilliance – The Daily Telegraph
Ben Collins (UK), Zaid Ait Malek: The stowaway who became a Spanish ultrarunning star – Bbc.com/sport
Benjamin Church (UK), Football is the best cure for anything:’ The club providing solace four years after the Grenfell Tower fire – Edition.cnn.com
Nick Hope (UK), Refugee Paralympian Ibrahim Al Hussein’s remarkable journey from war-torn Syria | Tom Daley: Triumph, trauma and a boy’s Olympic dream that came true – Bbc.com/sport
Ivy Nyayieka, Christina Macfarlane, Jo Shelley (UK), Running As Equals: The elite athletes fighting for acceptance – Edition.cnn.com
Ben Morse (UK), Charlie Sifford: golf’s first Black professional who paved the way for Tiger Woods – CNN International
Sana Noor Haq (UK), Every risk that I took, it’s all worth it’: Abbas Karimi fled Afghanistan at age 16, now he’s repre – CNN Sport
George Ramsay (UK), How Maya Gabeira overcame a life-threatening accident to surf two record-breaking waves – Edition.cnn.com
Jeremy Wilson (UK), Peaty: Unleashing the Beast inside & Exclusive interview: Family of Nobby Stiles call for dementia action to honour England’s World Cup – The Telegraph
Suzanne Wrack (UK), ‘She has a skill you can’t buy’: the making of Chelsea’s Emma Hayes | ‘This is our final’: the team who led athletes’ escape from Afghanistan – The Guardian.com
George Wright (UK), Afghanistan women’s cricket team: Players hiding in Kabul fear Taliban rule – Bbc.com/sport
Eryn Mathewson (USA), Marathon Effort – Edition.cnn.com
Dvora Meyers (USA), Time for the End of the Teen Gymnast – FiveThirtyEight.com
Jackie Powell (USA), The WNBA Is Finally Catching Up on Mental Health – Sports Illustrated
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT – Now, the EC members will narrow the longlists into a shortlist of candidates to be presented to the Jury members, who will conduct the three remaining voting stages.
The final ceremony will take place in May in Europe, date and location are still to be confirmed following the evolution of the pandemic.
To know more about the judging method and the AIPS Sport Media Awards 2021.
