7 days, 7 good news stories: a heroic victory in the Tour-de-France, a head wash for the bathing cap ignoramuses and a football club taking a stand against racism.
LISTICLE/06/08/2022
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Days, 7 Good News: Record-Breaker Kristian Blummenfelt & More Protection for Children in Figure Skating by Kamila Walijewa

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We think: Every now and then it needs good news. Especially from sports. In our Good News we serve you every week seven news that make our - and hopefully your - sports heart beat faster. Because the news is fun. Because they are trend-setting. Because they show new trends. Because they sprinkle a pinch of absurdity in a much too serious world. Or because they simply bring joy. Main thing good mood, that's our motto in this news format.

And we also start right away. With the first transgender cheerleader in the NFL, the first skate park in Libya and a soccer player who does not give up her place in the national team despite pregnancy so easily.

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Libya's first Skate Park

Whoever thinks of Libya, thinks above all of unstable political conditions. All the better news is that now the Australian Wade Trevean has built a skate park in Tripoli together with residents - the first ever in the country. Due to the civil war, there were hardly any recreational facilities for young people. The idea was to create a facility where people could come together to play sports. Trevean had already successfully built skate parks in Mozambique and Iraq. Both thumbs up for this action!

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Justine Lindsay: Trans Power for the NFL

The Topcats, the Carolina Panters' cheerleading team, are getting reinforcements. But not just anyone: Justine Lindsay is joining the NFL cheerleaders as the first black trans woman and wants to be a role model for inclusion in competitive sports. "A dream come true," she wrote about it on Instagram. "This is a moment I will never forget and I can't wait to show you all what this girl has to offer." Coach Chandalae Lanouette is adamant about one thing: Lindsay made it to the Topcats on talent alone - not as part of a quota. Congratulations, Justine!

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Better Protection for Children in Figure Skating

The world of figure skating is extremely tough and competitive, and for younger athletes* in particular, it can be a huge burden. Most recently, for example, we had heard about 15-year-old Russian skater Kamila Waliyeva, who collapsed after a positive doping test and a special start right in the individual competition. Now the world federation ISU has decided: the minimum age in figure skating is to be gradually raised to 17 by the next Winter Games in order to protect young people from burnout, eating disorders and long-term consequences of injuries. This is the right thing to do, we think.

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Mother or Athlete? Both!

As soon as female athletes get pregnant, that's it for competitive sports - that's the expectation women have to live up to. Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir from the Icelandic women's national soccer team does not want to let this get her down and shows that she can combine both: Family and sport. Even during her pregnancy, she continued to train with the help of a special coach, so that after giving birth she was back on the pitch after just five months. Before this physical and mental strength, which is necessary for this, we take our hats off.

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Rather a Handball Player than a Gang Member

No handball without Alexander Petersson. So it was so far at least, but now he says goodbye to the competitive sport. The Good News at it: the handball is for the native Icelander not only his profession, but has also fundamentally positive things in his life. "Handball has steered my life in a better direction," he told "Mannheimer Morgen." He used to be in a kind of youth gang: "There you do more and more nonsense the older you get." Instead, he opted for professional sports - and more than successful!

07

New German Record in Sprinting

The 38-second mark is cracked! Before the start of the World Championships in the United States in July, it could not run better for the German sprinters. In Regensburg, they cracked the old record after ten years with 37.99 seconds. Up to the world's top it is still a piece, but Owen Ansah, Lucas Ansah-Peprah, Kevin Kranz and Joshua Hartmann show that the best prepared for the World Championships. We keep our fingers crossed!

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