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ethical foundation of sport
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transparency and freedom
of expression in sport
Play the Game 2019 - presentations, photos and video
You can now find presentations, photos and video recordings from the conference on the conference website.
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NEWS
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Massive backing from participants to the first Play the Game conference outside Europe
20.02.2020 /Two out of three participants at Play the Game 2019 rated the conference experience as ‘very good’. The internal evaluation is now available. > -
A fist of freedom or a fist of iron?
11.02.2020 /The IOC President has made it very clear that politics should be kept out of the Olympics. However, it is a paradox that IOC’s characterisation of politicisation only seems to apply to athletes and not the host nations. > -
A decade that opened windows of democracy in sport
31.12.2019 /It was not primarily athletes that drove the radical change of the sports agenda in the decade we leave. But there are signs that they will be at the heart of the agenda of the 2020’s. > -
Governments step up their actions against sports corruption
18.12.2019 /For the first time, IPACS invited all nations of the world to join in. While other stakeholders are still kept out, governments are engaging more in fighting corruption in sport. > -
NOlympics Anywhere: A transnational movement to stop the Olympic Games
03.12.2019 /In July 2019 anti-Olympics organisers gathered in Tokyo with the goal of solidifying their transnational connections into a movement against the Olympics. > -
More – not less – democracy is often better for organising a World Cup
29.11.2019 /In 2013, then-FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke stated that a “strong head of state” reduces organisational costs. Matthias Fett looks at the numbers and tests this hypothesis. > -
Global Athlete: “We are noticed”
20.11.2019 /To Global Athlete Director General Rob Koehler, sports democracy is ‘a democracy limited for the few’ that needs to change. He heads up an international athlete-led movement promoting athletes’ rights. >