Eimear Ryan: Keeping politics out of sport is not a luxury most sportswomen can afford
Naomi Osaka of Japan wears a mask with the name of George Floyd on it during an interview following her US Open quarter-final win over Shelby Rogers. Picture: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images
Throughout the last seven months, as all of our individual and collective worlds have shrunk, I’ve started looking for new ways to connect with the wider world.
In practice, this has meant spending too much time on Instagram and listening to podcasts, but one of my more successful strategies has been subscribing to the newsletters of writers I admire. There’s a sense of intimacy with newsletters that’s missing from blogs — look, an email from my favourite writer! — and, with comment sections becoming increasingly hair spaces, you don’t miss the community aspect of blogs as much as you’d expect.
