Saudi oil giant spends well over a billion on โsportswashing,โ new report says
Fossil-fuel companies are the new patrons of Big Sport, according to think tank New Weather Institute.
International Olympic Committee
Copenhagen 2036? Denmark looks into hosting the Olympics.
โMy vision is that we must have the smallest and most sustainable Olympics ever,โ a Copenhagen city official said.
Fate of Eiffel Towerโs Olympic rings turns into political fightย
Proposal to leave iconic logo on Franceโs most famous monument sparks row.
French authorities to investigate Algerian boxer Khelifโs cyberbullying charges against Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling
Khelif hit back against high-profile personalities over gender claims.
โFuck the reactionariesโ: Paris mayor to Olympics opening ceremony critics
Anne Hidalgo blamed the far right for stoking divisions in French society.
Bulgaria, Hungary weigh in on boxing gender row at Paris Games
Hungary’s boxing federation and Bulgaria’s Olympic Committee have contacted the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to object to the participation of two athletes at the Paris Olympics, the governing bodies said on Friday (2 August) amid a gender dis…
Forty-six seconds of womenโs boxing fanned the culture war flames
Italian PM Meloni called the defeat of her compatriot against an athlete who has previously failed a testosterone level test ‘unfair’.
Why the Netherlands seems unfazed by sending a child rapist to the Olympics | Renate van der Zee
Very little thought seems to have been given to how Steven van der Veldeโs presence might affect victims of sexual abuseFor weeks now, controversy has surrounded the Dutch beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde, who was sentenced to four years in …
Trio of Russian athletes competing in Paris 2024 despite supporting war in Ukraine
Ukraine had lobbied to exclude Russian war supporters.
World leaders pledge billions to sports and sustainability at pre-Olympics summit
Around 500 participants attended Thursday’s summit near the Louvre Museum in Paris championed by French President Emmanuel Macron and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
France gets conditional approval to host 2030 winter Olympics
Just two days before the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony kicks off, France was granted conditional approval to host the 2030 Winter Olympics. Set to take place in the French Alps, the green light was given by the International Olympic Committee o…
Russian and Belarusian Olympic athletes accused of supporting war in Ukraine
Dossier covers 17 athletes due to compete in ParisIOC accused of negligence over own rulesA human rights law firm has accused the International Olympic Committee of negligence after releasing a dossier of 17 Russian and Belarusian athletes due to compe…
Seine-Saint-Denis: France’s poorest area hopes to reap Olympic benefits
Seine-Saint-Denis, where the Athletes’ Village and the main athletics stadium for the 2024 Summer Olympics are situated, is the poorest area in France and is hoping to reap benefits from the sports extravaganza. President Macron and International Olym…
Russians, Belarussians suspected of foreign interference barred from Paris Games
Among thousands of applications, a few dozen were rejected on suspicion of foreign interference, French Interior Minister Darmanin says.
The Olympics have always been political
Efforts to keep politics out of sports will never be successful.
Making the Olympics cheap again
The IOC says hosting the Games no longer has to be an expensive nightmare.
Olympics chiefs face fury over Putin allies in top jobs
Kremlin cronies holding senior Olympic positions โis an official recognition of Russiaโs triumph against international law,โ Lithuanian PM told POLITICO.
Putinโs people still hold top Olympic rolesย
Outrage builds ahead of Paris 2024 Games over senior Russians in prominent positions.
Letter from Ukraine: How will my mom survive if Iโm drafted?
Itโs undocumented โ or under-documented โ special needs folks like my mom whose lives are at risk because of Ukraineโs new turbocharged mobilization law.
IOC urged to help overturn French headscarves ban at Olympics
Human rights groups say prohibition has left Muslim athletes feeling โinvisibilised, excluded and humiliatedโHuman rights groups have called on the International Olympic Committee to help overturn a ban on French athletes wearing headscarves, arguing t…
IOC urged to help overturn France’s hijab ban
Sports and human rights organisations call on International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach to help overturn a ban on French athletes wearing the hijab.
IOC urged to help overturn France’s hijab ban
Sports and human rights organisations call on International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach to help overturn a ban on French athletes wearing the hijab.
Macron’s snap election call unsettles Paris Olympics build-up
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday described the prospect of French parliamentary elections just weeks before the start of the Paris Olympics as “extremely unsettling”, while the International Olympic Committee played down any direct impact on the eve…
Russia denies involvement in shock disinformation operations in Paris
The Kremlin has been accused of stepping up a hybrid destabilization campaign targeting France and the Olympics.
Russia wages disinformation campaign to stoke fears of violence ahead of Paris Olympics
Russia is waging an intense disinformation campaign aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the International Olympic Committee and stoking fears of violence at this summer’s Paris Games, according to a new report from Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center.
Protecting the conditional autonomy of governing bodies in sport from review โfrom a competition standpointโ: how the Court should decide its pending cases on the transfer system, the regulation of agents and club (re-)location.
Stephen Weatherill
Jacques Delors Professor of
European Law (Emeritus), Faculty of Law and Somerville College, University of
Oxford
Photo: Lassana Diarra, by ะ ัะฑะฐะบะพะฒะฐ ะะปะตะฝะฐ, on Wikimedia Commons
In preparing this paper I have
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Microsoft goes from bad boy to top cop in the age of AI
The tech company fields teams of disinformation-hunters, computer scientists and policy officials in a bid to stop artificial intelligence from gatecrashing the 2024 global election cycle.
Chinaโs cheating threatens to wreck Paris Olympics, US anti-drugs chief says
American regulator Travis Tygart accuses the World Anti-Doping Agency of “allowing” Chinese authority to cover up illegal drug-taking by top swimmers.
โHit them in the face,โ Lukashenko tells Belarusian athletes ahead of Olympics
“Anger in sports is important,” the Belarus leader said.
Deepfakes, distrust and disinformation: Welcome to the AI election
From phony robocalls to lifelike forged photos, the trendy tech is evolving at breakneck pace โ as billions head to the polls.
Ukraine war briefing: Nato foreign ministers to discuss proposal for โฌ100bn fund for Ukraine
Nato plan seen as a way to โTrump-proofโ aid for Kyiv; Zelenskiy lowers conscription age to 25. What we know on day 770See all our Ukraine war coverageA Ukrainian drone struck the primary unit of the third-largest Russian oil refinery in the Tatarstan …
Fact-check: Will the Paris Olympics really be the first gender-equal Games?
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been lauding itself for having achieved full gender parity for the time in history. But is that the reality?
Russian, Belarusian athletes barred from Paris Olympics opening ceremony
IOC says those affected by the ban will be able to “experience” the ceremony without participating in it.
Coach who tried to force Olympic sprinter back to Belarus lands five-year ban
Yury Moisevich guilty of โaffront to athleteโs dignityโKrystsina Tsimanouskaya feared for her safety in BelarusAn Olympic coach who tried to force the sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya home from the Tokyo Games to Belarus, where she feared for her safet…
Russia loses appeal against Olympics body over suspension
Court dismisses Moscow’s complaint about the ban, which is linked to the Kremlin’s occupation of parts of Ukraine.
Latvia bans its sports teams from playing Russian or Belarusian squads
Riga’s parliament wants “to block any Russian efforts to legitimize its war crimes through the sports industry.โ
Politics threatens to spoil Paris 2024 Olympics
Emmanuel Macron’s sports extravaganza faces tense geopolitical moment.
Ukraineโs fallen hero
Russian collaboration accusations dog iconic sportsman Sergei Bubka.
Putin raises doubts Russians will participate in Paris Olympics
Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned the International Olympic Committee rules mandating Russian athletes compete at the Paris Olympics as neutrals.ย
Germany warns of โwarmonger Putinโ pushing propaganda at Paris Olympics
IOC says 11 Russian and Belarusian athletes so far meet the criteria to compete at 2024 Games.
Paris 2024: Olympic federations ask IOC to allow Russian & Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals
Olympic sports federations ask the International Olympic Committee to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at next summer’s Paris Games.
By the numbers: POLITICO 28 Class of 2024
Breaking down POLITICOโs ranking of the most powerful people in Europe.
AI โTom Cruiseโ joins fake news barrage targeting Olympics
IOC retorts after major Telegram channel dominated by Russian-language content hosted disinfo.
Putin accuses Olympic Games organizers of โethnic discriminationโ
Earlier this month, the IOC banned the Russian Olympic Committee for breaching the Olympic Charter.
Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 597 of the invasion
Russia and Ukraine fighting fierce battles around eastern town of Avdiivka; Finland says โstate actorโ may be behind damage to gas pipelineSee all our Ukraine war coverageRussian and Ukrainian forces fought fierce battles around the eastern Ukrainian t…
Olympic chiefs ban Russia โ but door still open to Paris 2024 for athletes
Russian Olympic Committee is hammered for taking sports organizations in occupied Ukraine under its umbrella.
International Olympic Committee suspends Russian Olympic Committee ‘with immediate effect’
The Russian Olympic Committee has been suspended “with immediate effect”, according to the International Olympic Committee.
Russia-Ukraine war: IOC bans Russian Olympic Committee for including annexed regions of Ukraine
International Olympic Committee says inclusion of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia merits immediate suspensionWhat we know on day 596 of the invasionRomaniaโs defence ministry has reported the discovery of a drone crater near the countryโs bo…
Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 596 of the invasion
IOC suspends Russian Olympic Committee; Ukraine claims to have foiled attempted incursion into Sumy; Putin visits KyrgystanSee all our Ukraine coverageThe International Olympic Committee on Thursday suspended the Russian Olympic Committee for recognisi…
Russian para-athletes allowed to compete in Paris 2024 Games under neutral flag
International Paralympic Committee voted to only partially suspend Russia and Belarus, in a decision slammed by Ukraine.
Ukrainian fencer Olha Kharlan: โWith that black card they destroyed me, my country, everythingโ
After she was disqualified from the world championships for not shaking Russian rivalโs hand, her plight has become a touchstone for a war-torn nationOlha Kharlan remembers taking her kit, sitting quietly in a side room and contemplating a future witho…