Play the Game 2027

Maggie Nichols at Play the Game 2025. Maggie is a World Champion gymnast and 8-time NCAA Champion. She was also the first gymnast to report sexual abuse by a USA Gymnastics doctor – revelations which led to the uncovering of a major abuse scandal in American gymnastics. She is now an athlete advocate and founder of the Maggie Nichols Foundation. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard / Play the Game

Closing speech by Bjørn Berge, Council of Europe's Deputy Secretary General, at Play the Game 2025. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard / Play the Game

Ukranian skeleton athlete Vladislav Heraskevych in a panel debate with among others Kristin Kloster, member of the IOC Executive Board. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Friba Rezayee, executive director, Women Leaders of Tomorrow, at Play the Game 2024. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Philippe Auclair, investigative reporter, at Play the Game 2025. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Getty Images

Screening of the ESPN documentary ‘The NBA, Rwanda, and sportswashing’ followed by a critical discussing and a Q&A at Play the Game 2025. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Richard H. McLaren, chief executive officer, McLaren Global Sport Solutions Inc, at Play the Game 2024.Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Joanna Maranhão, network coordinator, Sport & Rights Alliance, at Play the Game 2025. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Carine Kanimba, member of the Executive Council, World Liberty Congress, at Play the Game 2025. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Zohreh Abdollahkhani, PhD research fellow, University of South Eastern Norway, at Play the Game 2024. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Panel debate about whistleblowing at Play the Game 2019. Left: Bryan Fogel, Oscar‐winning film director of ICARUS. Middle: Vitaly and Yulia Stepanov, the Russian whistleblowers who exposed Russia’s state-run doping system in cooperation with German journalist Hajo Seppelt. Right: Damien Larin, then confidential information manager at WADA. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Tariq Panja from The New Times at Play the Game 2019. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game 

Lina Alhathloul from Saudi Arabia, head of monitoring and advocacy, ALQST for Human Rights, at Play the Game 2024. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Shireen Ahmed, journalist, CBC Sports, at Play the Game 2024. Photo: Thomas Søndergard/Play the Game

Lise Klaveness, president, The Norwegian Football Association, Norway, at Play the Game 2024. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Minky Worden from Human Rights Watch, Ahmar Maiga from executive director, Young Players Protection in Africa, Mali, and Andrea Florence in a session titled “Abuse of minors in Mali: A model of system flaws in sport”. Photo: Thomas Sønedrgaard/Play the Game

Günter Younger, WADA director of Intelligence and Investigations, at Play the Game 2022. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Khalida Popal, founder and director, Girl Power, and Kasper Hjulmand, then head coach, Denmark's men's national football team, at Play the Game 2022. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Journalist, TigerEye Investigations, at Play the Game 2019. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

Travis Tygart, CEO, United States Anti-Doping Agency, and Yuriy Ganus, then Director general, RUSADA, at Play the Game 2019. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game

At Play the Game 2025, whistleblower Abdullah Ibhais revealed Qatar’s surveillance of journalists during 2022 World Cup preparations. Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game