It’s beyond time, now, to reclaim body positivity in sport, and to embrace the message that body shape and sporting fulfilment are not mutually exclusiveSharad Kohli“I was never the leanest cricketer in the world but I won games for franchises. I won games for my country,” Dané van Niekerk told BBC Sport Africa earlier this year. “You cannot diminish somebody or make them feel bad because they don’t look the way that you expect.” There, in that last line, is the nub of a very contemporary argument, of nature coming up against conditioning.The decision by the selectors to omit van...
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