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PtG Article 17.07.2024
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PtG Article 23.05.2024
Rich Gulf states are taking over combat sports
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 30.11.2022
A sportswashing Qatarstrophe
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 05.04.2022
Most Olympic federations suspend Russian athletes, but officials go free
PtG Article 26.10.2015
Azerbaijan’s rise to prominence – nation building or sportswashing?
PtG Article 12.11.2000
Using Sports in National Development
PtG Article 12.11.2000
Sport and Economic Development
PtG Article 18.06.1997
The Cultural Secrets of Sport - Globalization or National Identity