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NEWSLETTER 6 NOVEMBER 2005
(First day of Play the Game 2005)
1) Kelli White is set for a clean future
2) Journalist’s attacker still not found
3) Message of support to Play the Game from Kofi Annan
4) Soccer fixing tactics revealed at Play the Game
5) Play the Game honours absent friends
6) High resolution pictures from Play the Game
1) Kelli White is set for a clean future
Former World Champion sprinter, Kelli White, feels that it is possible to top global track and field without relying on drugs. But she also told Play the Game delegates that the fight against doping in sport was hard because athletes were scared of the providers, who are extremely powerful, and drug-detectors always found themselves outrun by drug-makers.
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2) Journalist’s attacker still not found
Sports journalism has become a dangerous business in Greece with three attacks on sports journalists in the past year. To highlight this unfortunate development, Play the Game had invited Greek sports editor Filippos Syrigos to Copenhagen to talk about the attack and the possible reasons for it. In October 2004, Syrigos told the police officer – just as he told delegates at Play the Game 2005 – that he had been working on three major reporting issues – all of them sports scandals with the potential to be the reason for the hit against him.
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3) Message of support to Play the Game from Kofi Annan
On its first day, the Play the Game communication conference on sport and society received a major boost in the form of a message of support from United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The message was relayed by Adolf Ogi, UN Under Secretary and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace, who addressed the conference with a strong speech concentrating on sport’s positive aspects.
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4) Soccer fixing tactics revealed at Play the Game
Have you ever left a football match feeling that the result was so unfair or bemusing that it must have been fixed? According to Declan Hill, former journalist and current Oxford University academic, you may just be right. He spoke in detail to assembled Play the Game delegates about the mechanisms involved in fixing a football match, and the vast sums of money that can be made if a match is fixed well – especially if a half-time score can be included.
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5) Play the Game honours absent friends
The fourth Play the Game communication conference on sport and society got underway, November 6, with a speech by Director Jens Sejr Andersen, who welcomed all those attending the 'biggest-ever international event focusing on corruption in sport'.
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6) High resolution pictures from Play the Game
Official high resolution pictures from the conference are provided by photographer Niels Nyholm.
You are free to download them and use them on your website and in printed material provided you credit Play the Game and photographer Niels Nyholm.
Browse the collection here
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