The Stifled Cry of La Vinotinto
Venezuela restarts its World Cup journey with fans and players impacted by politics. Many footballers have spoken out against Maduro's election fraud
Tag: Sports
The New, The Old and The Unbelievable: Watching Baseball in Caracas
When you move to the Venezuelan capital from a city like Maracaibo, or have spent some years abroad, you may be amazed by how affordable watching Ronald Acuña can be, and how spectacular is the new stadium
The Silent Demise of Venezuelan Baseball
Venezuela’s favorite sport keeps going, amid excruciating circumstances, sparse crowds and almost no reporters. A dispatch from the field of the Luis Aparicio El Grande Stadium
The Long Road to Tokyo of Venezuelan Paralympic Athletes
Practicing a Paralympic sport in Venezuela implies overcoming both the physical difficulties and the national crisis. Here are some of the stories of the athletes in the Venezuelan delegation
Numbers Are Forever: the Feats of Miguel Cabrera
With his 500 home runs in the MLB, the Detroit Tigers batter reached a set of records unmatched by any other Venezuelan baseball star
Government Blocks Independent Media From Olympian Presser
The ministries of Sports and Communications censored private media outlets and said they didn’t have the credentials to cover the arrival of the Olympian athletes from Tokyo. 600,000 Venezuelans are waiting to get the second dose of the Sputnik V vaccine.
How the Olympics Helped Me Reconnect with Venezuela
These games and the performance of our athletes are doing something strange to migrants like me: making us feel proud of the country that we felt had betrayed us
Our New Gold Standard
A Queen, A 36-year-old BMX rider, a weight lifter from the Cota 905, and a self-taught phys ed teacher from rural town Barlovento are just some of the characters leading an unlikely historic generation of Venezuelan athletes
Julio Mayora and Another Victory for Chavismo
A Venezuelan weightlifter winning silver in Tokyo is the embodiment of the hardships to train, the vulnerability of the poor to the regime’s manipulation, and the lack of empathy in our public opinion
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