Using the power of global sport to effect change in the future is the only good that can come from the Iranian wrestler’s execution
The sporting world learned at the weekend of the grave news that the Iranian wrestling champion, Navid Afkari, had been hanged by the Iranian regime for a crime to which he claimed he was tortured to falsely confess.
The visibility and social importance of sport around the world means that these types of barbarous acts, whilst occurring every day to other innocent people, become magnified. This is an important power of sport.