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The boxing drama is modest in scope, but big in heart – Blogging Sole

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The boxing drama is modest in scope, but big in heart – Blogging Sole

What is a place if it is not on the map? What are people if they are not recognized? Felipe Holguin Caro’s La Suprema asks these questions in an intimate drama set in a remote Caribbean town in Colombia. La Suprema is not on any map and its Afro-Colombian population feels similarly erased. Modest in … Read more

Mykhailo Mudryk’s doping test is ‘a dagger to the heart of Ukrainian football’ – Blogging Sole

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Mykhailo Mudryk’s doping test is ‘a dagger to the heart of Ukrainian football’ – Blogging Sole

Just six months after Russia invaded Ukraine, on a balmy September evening in eastern Germany, I ran into Mykhailo Mudryk shortly after midnight. It was September 2022 and Mudryk was then an emerging talent for Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk. He scored and was the team’s main attacking threat in a shock 4–1 victory for Shakhtar … Read more