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PtG Article 01.11.2023
Play the Game publishes dataset that maps the network of actors behind Saudi Arabia's sports strategy
PtG Article 01.11.2023
The power players behind Saudi Arabia's sports strategy
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 30.11.2022
A sportswashing Qatarstrophe
PtG Comment 19.11.2022
Football may unite the world, but FIFA works to divide it
PtG Article 18.11.2022
World sports federations may give up their own independent platform
PtG Article 27.10.2022
The Saudis in sport: Ambitions much larger than sportswashing
PtG Article 07.10.2022
Political campaign for a world anti-corruption agency launched at the European Parliament
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 Article 05.04.2022
Most Olympic federations suspend Russian athletes, but officials go free
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 14.10.2021
Beijing 2022: Olympic boycott battle over China’s ‘Genocide Games’
PtG Comment 10.03.2021
The playbook that keeps Thomas Bach in power at the IOC
PtG Article 17.02.2021
Human rights in sport rises to the top of the agenda in the Council of Europe
PtG Comment 13.01.2021
Egypt’s search for a fig leaf: It’s not the Handball World Championship
PtG Comment 15.12.2020
Olympic finger-wagging at Europe’s last dictator
PtG Comment 09.11.2020
To stand up for Olympic values it may be necessary to kneel as well
PtG Comment 28.04.2020
Coronavirus, connection and (no) sport
PtG Comment 11.02.2020
A fist of freedom or a fist of iron? Rule 50 and the Olympic paradox
PtG Comment 31.12.2019
A decade that opened windows of democracy in sport