Sporting Life: Upsets, protests, noise, pressure, what else would you like from a World Cup?

At dinner on Saturday night time a younger lady is animatedly discussing protest in sport. What’s trivial about it, what’s significant and whether or not trendy athletes are prepared for the burden of consequence. If the trigger is mighty, repercussion is inevitable.

My good friend has a level in sport (actually) and she or he is aware of of American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who put their black-gloved fists within the air on the 1968 Olympics to protest racial injustice. Then hell broke unfastened.