The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced a new policy on the protection of the women’s category that will force thousands of elite women athletes […]
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The hypocrisy in sports
The hypocrisy of both the sports and political fraternity in handling recent politicization of sports is rather telling. Whether it is the International Olympic Committee […]
Wishful thinking that sports sanctions works better in reeling in authoritarian regimes
It has been slightly over two years since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially suspended Russia for violating the Olympic Charter by unilaterally incorporating sports […]
Apolitical or a political tool?
The Indonesian authorities have refused to grant visas to the six member Israeli gymnastics team for the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships starting on Sunday […]
Sports boycott has not worked, only athletes suffer
Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja, recently said sporting bodies should consider banning Israel from world competitions, accusing it of breaching international law in the killing and […]
Sports associations or oppressive regimes?
I was not even born when the greatest of all athletes, Jesse Owens, denied Hitler the spectacle of Aryan supremacy during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. […]