Saturday 26 February 2022
Sports IS political
At this time of international danger precipitated by Russia's incursion into Ukraine, the protest of the Polish football association and star player Robert Lewandowski in refusing to play European championship games with Russia is a model for sports participants everywhere. TorontotheBetter hopes that such actions will finally consign to the garbage dump of history the absurd belief that sports and politics can, or should, be separate. All life, including sport, is political. If nothing else emerges from this momentous time, encouragement to stand up for non-violence and world peace is the most important and, hopefully, the most long lasting. There are more important things than sports but at certain moments like the present sports can, and must, be important as rallying tools; Poland's representatives are showing us how.
