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PtG Article 16.02.2024
IOC member: No Taliban flag at the Olympics in Paris
PtG Article 07.02.2024
Sporting bodies called out for lack of action on Palestine and Afghan women
PtG Article 06.02.2024
Lessons from Qatar 2022: How activists should approach the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia
PtG Article 01.02.2024
The Saudi prince: "Our ambition is to organise a better World Cup than Qatar"
PtG Article 01.11.2023
The power players behind Saudi Arabia's sports strategy
PtG Article 01.11.2023
Play the Game publishes dataset that maps the network of actors behind Saudi Arabia's sports strategy
PtG Article 30.10.2023
Pride and propaganda: Russia’s reimagined sports world
PtG Comment 27.03.2023
Coe and Bach: United in history, divided by history
PtG Article 12.01.2023
The expansion of Saudi investments in sport: From football to esport
PtG Article 22.12.2022
A global map of Qatar’s sponsorships in sports
PtG Article 30.11.2022
A sportswashing Qatarstrophe
PtG Comment 19.11.2022
Football may unite the world, but FIFA works to divide it
PtG Article 27.10.2022
The Saudis in sport: Ambitions much larger than sportswashing
PtG Article 28.09.2022
Member of European Parliament launches call for a world anti-corruption agency for sport
PtG Article 29.08.2022
Sexual abuse in sport: Canada could be a world leader in developing solutions
PtG Article 27.07.2022
From sportswashing in autocracies to soft power in democracies 
PtG Comment 27.06.2022
Sport must choose between democracy and autocracy
PtG Article 05.04.2022
Most Olympic federations suspend Russian athletes, but officials go free
PtG Article 23.03.2022
Russian betting companies continue to sponsor football clubs after invasion
PtG Comment 02.03.2022
The coalition of Olympic perpetrators
PtG Comment 08.02.2022
A modest but confident China on display at the 2022 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony
PtG Article 09.12.2021
Playing with dictators behind closed doors: Athletes pay the price
PtG Article 14.10.2021
Beijing 2022: Olympic boycott battle over China’s ‘Genocide Games’
PtG Comment 22.04.2021
Athletes knock the legs from under global sports governance