HISTORIC 🇨🇦
"Today, we made history, and it’s especially meaningful that it happened during Black History Month"
Canada's Cyrus Gray and Shaq Murray-Lawrence are the first Black duo to hit the start line for a World Cup two-man race
📸: Viesturs Lacis
Exactly what we feared could happen when the FIA axed the race director at such a crucial stage of the season. Open the investigation. Start the debates. Keep asking the questions. #F1
Hockey can't be a source of healing and reconciliation until the scope of anti-Indigenous racism is exposed and addressed. Hockey Manitoba itself needs to be held accountable for perpetuating the racism it knows is embedded in its sport.
📢 We need an overhaul of the culture, improved ways of communicating, and a redesign of how we educate, network and recruit the untapped talent pool of female leaders and coaches who are yet to enter the elite sporting world.
🌍 Whether it be the IOC, FIFA, or the thousands of individual national governing bodies around the Globe, nearly all approaches to a lack of diversity in elite coaching are the same: fix the women, not the system
Watching Gen Z men veer right hits different for Millennials. We lived through Columbine, 9/11, the Iraq War, 2008 crash, 2016 election, covid, abortion bans, & now this. We watched institutions repeatedly fail us while older generations selfishly protected the status quo. 🧵1/
4️⃣ Ways to increase the number of female coaches in performance sport👇
👉 Give women a voice & LISTEN
👉 Speak out about discrimination
👉 Create equality of opportunity
👉 Fix the system, not the women
🧢 Female coaches are often perceived as having better communication and interpersonal skills than male coaches, which can help to foster positive relationships between coaches, athletes, and staff. This can help to build a positive team culture and improve morale. 😀
✅ We need to change the conversation around gender inequality in the sports coaching. Instead of focusing on what women need to do differently, we need to acknowledge the systemic issues that contribute to the problem and work together to address them