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Article 02.12.2024
Play the Game publishes fresh dataset exposing Saudi Arabia’s enormous influence in world sports
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Article 02.12.2024
A Kingdom's football ambition: The road to 2034
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Opinion 15.11.2024
The dangers of ‘balanced journalism’: A call for journalists to scrutinise Saudi’s sports investments
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Analysis 18.09.2024
The African dictator with a penchant for sports
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Article 12.09.2024
China vs. Taiwan: The battle for global influence through stadium diplomacy
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Opinion 24.07.2024
Olympic athletes deserve pay and prize money
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Opinion 22.07.2024
An Olympics without flags - a road to innovation?
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Article 17.07.2024
New study shows that democracies have outpaced autocracies in the Olympic race
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Article 05.07.2024
WADA and USADA are embroiled in a bitter fight over Chinese case that affects everyone in anti-doping
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Analysis 24.06.2024
EURO 2024 sponsors linked to forced labour and pornographic content for minors
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Article 23.05.2024
Rich Gulf states are taking over combat sports
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Article 14.05.2024
Money for medals divides the Olympic movement
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Article 16.02.2024
IOC member: No Taliban flag at the Olympics in Paris
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Article 01.11.2023
The power players behind Saudi Arabia's sports strategy
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Article 12.10.2023
Soft power through combat sports: The Abu Dhabi blueprint
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Comment 27.03.2023
Coe and Bach: United in history, divided by history
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Article 02.02.2023
A thought experiment: Estimating global sports’ total carbon emissions
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Article 12.01.2023
The expansion of Saudi investments in sport: From football to esport
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Article 22.12.2022
A global map of Qatar’s sponsorships in sports
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Article 27.10.2022
The Saudis in sport: Ambitions much larger than sportswashing
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Article 27.07.2022
From sportswashing in autocracies to soft power in democracies
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Article 27.06.2022
Saudi Arabia is filling the vacuum after Russia in a year of sportswashing
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Comment 22.02.2022
Child athletes are too valuable for the Olympic system to set age limits
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Analysis 08.02.2022
A modest but confident China on display at the 2022 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony