When the human rights lawyer Kat Craig was told she was going to be presented with the integrity and impact award at last month’s Sports Industry Awards for her role in the evacuation of female Afghan athletes and others as Kabul fell to the Taliban last summer, she tried to turn it down.
The award has been won by Marcus Rashford for his campaign against food poverty, Raheem Sterling for his anti-racism work and by the former gymnast Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse the US gymnastics coach Larry Nassar of sexual abuse. Craig wanted to point the spotlight elsewhere.
