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Politics
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07 July 2006
Sport will be high on the agenda of the European Commission for the next year. EU Commissioner Jan Figel has decided to produce a ”White Paper on the Role of Sport in Europe” in 2007 and a lengthy consultation process with sports...[more]
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03 March 2006
This month the Independent Review of European Football will open with public hearings. A key issue will be who should own clubs: fans or business men.[more]
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30 November 2005
Huge sporting events are a break from every day life.
But they are expensive. Event organisers understimate the costs and exaggerate the revenues for the event and for the host country, says Harry Arne Solberg of the Trondheim...[more]
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30 November 2005
Does a top athlete's body belong to him- or herself? Or does it belong to the whole nation? Olcay Canbulat speaks at Play the Game 2005 about the athlete being an object of desire for national and political success and...[more]
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07 November 2005
Sport has been "used and abused" by politicians everywhere and down the ages with personal and political agendas according to Terry Monnington, director of Warwick University’s Department of Physical Education and Sport.[more]
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06 November 2005
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.[more]
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23 September 2005
Europe’s minor nations can breathe a sigh of relief as doomsday has been temporarily averted. At the April 2005 congress in Tallin, UEFA changed procedures for replacing President Lennart Johansson. This delayed Franz...[more]
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29 July 2003
One hand, the military dictatorship used the soccer World Cup 1978 to gain political prestige at home and abroad. On the other, the Argentinians celebrated football because they regarded it as something of their own. Indeed, this...[more]
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03 June 2003
Professor of sports history, Hans Bonde, gives a brief introduction to the fascinating history of the Danish gymnastics pedagogue Niels Bukh. He revolutionized male aesthetics, became a symbol of Danishness and was dangerously...[more]
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13 November 2002
In this article, Laura Robinson explains how and why she wrote the play FrontRunners about ten indigenous runners in Canada. These men had been good runners and students in 1967 when Winnipeg hosted the Pan-Am Games and had...[more]
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