Alessandro Del Piero Photographed By Gianni Giansanti For The Photobiography Semplicemente Del Piero.

Alessandro del Piero photographed by Gianni Giansanti for the photobiography Semplicemente Del Piero.

Dang that place is pretty

Palestinian Waseem Abu Sal and Sweden's Nebil Ibrahim at the end of round of 32 men’s boxing preliminaries.

Abu sal entered, with chants of "Free Palestine” breaking out loudly.

"I promise you I will continue training in the coming four years till 2028, which I hope is the year I get a medal. I came here to grab a medal but that is sport and God willing, I will fight again. In four year’s time, I will raise the Palestinian flag over the podium,” Abu Sal said.

Ibrahim said “I tried to turn it around. It’s an honour for me to be the one to fight the first Palestinian boxer to enter at the Olympics. He’s not only representing his people and his country. He’s representing every oppressed nation in the world. Right now, Palestine is in the face of oppression so he has a big burden on his shoulders.”

Abu Sal was one of two flag-bearers for the Palestinian delegation.

His white shirt had embroidered images of warplanes dropping missiles over children playing sport.

"This shirt represents the current picture in Palestine," Abu Sal told AFP on Saturday. "The children who are martyred and die under the rubble, children whose parents are martyred and are left alone without food or water."

Abu Sal lives in the West Bank and was unable to train with his Cairo-based coach. A Gazan who cannot travel to him due to Israeli restrictions.

Against all odds.

Some of the Fencing masks from the Paris 2024 Olympics.

(Salim Heroui. Feres Ferjani. Olga Kharlan. Tufaha Uwihoreye. Aleksandra Jarecka. Kang Young Mi. Eleanor Harvey. Marie-Florence Candassamy. Rubén Limardo. Mohamed El-Sayed.)

And she’s got it!!!!!

Barbara Banda has gotta leave with a hattrick

he gets it (sports fandom as collaborative delusion)

update: the saga continues