This week I spoke to an Iranian feminist activist who has attended the past four men's and women's World Cups to campaign for women to be given free access to stadiums in Iran.
She had a ticket to Monday's game, but was denied a visa because she's Iranian.
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This week I spoke to an Iranian feminist activist who has attended the past four men's and women's World Cups to campaign for women to be given free access to stadiums in Iran.
She had a ticket to Monday's game, but was denied a visa because she's Iranian.
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
"The only meaningful solution – a smaller and more modest World Cup, less beholden to autocratic power, more accountable to its public – is also the only solution that can be safely ruled out."
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Extremely cool story alert: scientists find Earth's largest whale graveyard at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. By that @daniellawler.bsky.social.
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Iran’s women are not the only people to fall foul of the rules, with Donald Trump’s border policy denying access ... and progress
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The Fifa president has prostrated the organisation before Donald Trump and lost control of his own tournament as a result
The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found that the vast expanse of both new and ancient carcasses supports huge communi...
Many French-English or English-French puns do not work. This one, however, is absolute perfection. Chapeau, @cahiersdufootball.bsky.social.
Scientists found yeast growing inside the guts of a frozen mummy for thousands of years.
They used it to create a “very, very good” sourdough bread.
Hallucinant. Sur 150 journalistes français·es envoyé·es à la Coupe du Monde, seuls 10 sont des femmes. Et dans la presse écrite, c'est encore pire : 2 sur 80.
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More than 5,300 years ago, Oetzi the Iceman was strolling through the Alps on the border of Austria and Italy when he was killed by an arrow in the back.
La Coupe du monde masculine aurait dû être une vitrine des avancées en faveur de l’égalité et de la parité, mais les rédactions sportives persistent à n’envoyer que des hommes sur le terrain, dénonce ...
An observation about this World Cup compared to the previous two. Russia and Qatar made massive efforts for obvious reasons to change public perceptions and really went extra mile with hosting. The United States seems to not care about external reputational harm in same way. And we are seeing that.
