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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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Growing pressure as the IOC and Japan play for time
20.03.2020 /Support for the 2020 Olympic Games is waning but the IOC still hesitates to cancel the mega-event in Tokyo because of the coronavirus pandemic. Jens Weinreich explains what is going on inside the IOC right now. > -
Corona: Play the Game’s office closes but our activities continue
13.03.2020 /Until the end of March, Play the Game’s staff will work from home, but communication efforts and project management will continue as planned. > -
Athletes and academics join forces to open more avenues for athlete influence
06.03.2020 /Backed by Erasmus+ funds, a coalition of European athlete representatives and academics will map existing structures of athlete representation and develop new ones. > -
Football Leaks raises many questions – also for the media
02.03.2020 /At a hearing, the man behind Football Leaks, Rui Pinto, was characterised as a blackmailer. If he is convicted, the media’s role in publishing the document should be scrutinised, writes A. Selliaas. > -
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. >