Why 2022 wasn’t just the year of war and crises

Especially after a year like 2022 with war, epidemics and crises, you need some good news. With a bit of imagination, you can actually find them in sports.

KCan that exist? An annual review that only consists of good news? And that in a year of epidemics, a crisis, a war? On the other hand: Especially after a year like 2022, you need some good news. With a bit of imagination, you can actually find them in sports.

The shoe sole

The Commonwealth Games aren’t the hub of the sporting world, but they’re a big deal every four years, at least in the countries that were once the British Empire. That was also the case in Birmingham in 2022. There was a badminton preliminary round going on when one of the two players had a mishap. Jamaica’s Samuel Ricketts split the sole of a shoe. He was about to give up, he didn’t have a spare pair.