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Foreign media barred from Tibet in breach of Olympic media access pledge

19 March 2008

With less than six months to the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese government is failing in its pledge to allow free access to foreign journalists.[more]




Swiss judge reveals sport’s largest corruption scandal ever in trial against FIFA partners

13 March 2008

From 1989 to 2001, the world’s biggest marketing company ISL/ISSM paid personal commissions – or bribes – worth an unbelievable 138 million Swiss francs (87,5 million euros) to sports officials and other persons involved in the...[more]




Coventry University and Play the Game launch PhD Studentship on anti-corruption in sport

11 March 2008

The PhD and the studentship will focus on corruption in professional sport and be supervised by Professor Simon Chadwick and Dr John Beech. The overall project will be undertaken in conjunction with Play the Game.[more]




Danish politicians secure future for Play the Game

07 March 2008

The financial foundation for the next four years’ work of Play the Game was secured Wednesday 5 March as the Danish government and its parliamentary supporters included the institution in the delayed state budget agreement for...[more]




Plight of Nigerian footballer highlights player-trafficking in Pakistan

06 March 2008

The trafficking of football players from Africa is often wrongly regarded as a solely European phenomenon. As Pakistani journalist Shazad Ali of DAWN newspaper shows, trafficking is an issue in South Asia as well.[more]




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