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