By Shane Thomas
There
are a number of things in this world that I have little direct
interest in: cookery programmes; the fashion industry; or TV shows
from Shonda Rhimes. But that doesn't stop me appreciating their wider
social impact. It's not difficult to comprehend the significance of
Nadiya
Hussain,
Jourdan
Dunn,
or Shonda
Rhimes's influence
on Western popular culture.
It's
with this in mind that Media
Diversified begins
its series of articles on the upcoming Summer Olympics and
Paralympics in Rio. I confess on the rare occasions I penned a
missive about sport on this site, it brought with it a degree of
worry that the reader would go little further than the opening
paragraph, before dismissing the piece out of hand.
I'm
not ignorant of the way that in a space normally reserved for social,
cultural, and political commentary, sport is largely viewed as an
incongruous and unwelcome interloper, and while that's not an
entirely fair response, there are reasons that make such a reaction
understandable...
Read the whole piece on Media Diversified.
The Greatest Events in Sporting History" is available to download from http://www.simplysyndicated.com/shows/sportinghistory/, e-mail us at sportshistoryshow@googlemail.com and you can follow us on Twitter @TGEISH
