23-03-2025
Playing hockey with Russians would be hypocrisy, not diplomacy
Last week, my daughter's school put on the play 'Girls in the Boat' by Alice Austen. Austen ran track at Oregon before studying law at Harvard, where she co-founded the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Correlatedly, this play is about sports and equality — specifically, the American women who persevered against sexism to compete in the first women's Olympic rowing competition at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games. They went on to become the most dominant Olympic sports team in U.S. history.
