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Jaba Kankava, the Georgian footballer who saved his opponent’s life

2018-05-10T09:36:42+00:00May 10th, 2018|

Life is priceless. Today we want to inspire you by the sports moment in which this famous saying has literally translated into reality, when the Georgian footballer Jaba Kankava saved Dinamo Kiev player's life after a terrible collision during a game. The matter dates back to 2014 and it took part into the Ukrainian Premier League, the [...]

Danny Williams, the English boxer who fought one-armed

2018-05-03T10:03:09+00:00May 3rd, 2018|

When everything seems to be lost, you need to climb higher once more.  We want to inspire you with the story of the brave endurance of Danny Williams, the English heavyweight boxer who managed to win the match against his rival Mark Potter in the Wembley Conference Center on 21th of October in [...]

Gino Bartali, the road cyclist who saved 800 Jews

2018-04-26T12:52:11+00:00April 26th, 2018|

The 25th of April is remembered in Italy and Portugal as the Liberation Day from German Nazi occupation. We want to celebrate the event mentioning a sports story which for years has been hidden by the protagonist himself, Gino Bartali, one of the most important names in the history of cycling, who saved between 1943 and [...]

The San Francisco Dons Football standing against racism

2018-04-19T09:53:15+00:00April 19th, 2018|

The last weekend we remembered the Jackie Robinson's Day, the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era (here his full story). Connected with his fiction, there is a less known battle for the black civil rights run by the sportswriter Lester "Red" Rodney: he fighted against baseball’s color [...]

The Sambo fighter who won gold and carried his injured opponent off mat

2018-04-12T13:34:16+00:00April 12th, 2018|

Sometimes we do not expect it: finding some examples of fair play in combat sports, in which usually the respect of the beaten opponents can be easily trampled by the enthusiasm for the victory. This has happened during the 2015 European Games of Sambo hosted in Baku, in which the magnificent gesture of sportsmanship done by Stsiapan [...]

The English team which refused to give the Nazi salute

2018-04-05T09:11:24+00:00April 5th, 2018|

We often have to behave in contrast of our will, just apparently to not deal with problems. The following story teach us that sometimes it is necessary to express our ideas fighting for them in spite of the consequences, even if it seems too hard. It has happened during the 1936 Berlin Olympics [...]

The curious case of Eddie The Eagle

2018-03-29T10:57:55+00:00March 29th, 2018|

Probably it has happened for each of us to deal with obstacles which were though to be insurmountable. Nevertheless, there are some people who are not used to give up so easily, even if difficulties seem to be endless. Michael Edwards, even called "Eddie the Eagle", knows what we mean. He has been [...]

The unbelievable concession of the 1969 Ryder Cup

2018-03-22T10:23:38+00:00March 22nd, 2018|

As the most of us usually think, golf should be a sport in which rituals and habits are almost integral part of the discipline. Perhaps, you have never got in touch with the extraordinary act of sportsmanship made by the golf star Jack Nicklaus, who definitely broke the mould [...]

Nadal stops match to help finding a lost child

2018-03-15T10:29:58+00:00March 15th, 2018|

We often think that the most of champions gets so much concentrated to their objectives that they can't notice what is happening all around them as their are getting their best. This is not obvious refering to Academy Doubles Exhibition Match played in Manacor, Majorca, in September of 2016, which game [...]

The unforgettable hero of the Ashes 2005

2018-03-08T16:39:29+00:00March 8th, 2018|

The Ashes is a cricket competition played between England and Australia. Composed by 5 matches, the particularity of Ashes regards as being held by the team that most recently won the Test series. If the test series is drawn, the team that currently holds the Ashes retains the trophy. The 2005 edition [...]

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