Speech by Søren Riiskjær, vice chair of Play the Game/Danish Institute for Sports Studies who presented the award on behalf of the Play the Game Award committee.

The fight against drugs in sport is being severely hampered by a lack of willpower on the part of sport organisations and national governments, veteran IOC anti-doping enforcer Dick Pound told the Play the Game 2013 conference October 28.

Canadian IOC member and former WADA president, Richard W. Pound, tonight received the Play the Game Award 2013 for his uncompromising efforts in the fight for a cleaner and more democratic sports movement.

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong was one of the world’s greatest sporting icons – a global superstar who banked 700 million dollars from employers and sponsors during his career.

Brazil’s Deputy Minister of Sport Luis Fernandes is ready to debate with critics of the country’s mega-events this Thursday at Play the Game 2013.

In just three days, Play the Game will open the doors at the Helnan Marselis Hotel to our eighth conference on sport and society.

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A Play the Game conference is a festival for the sports debate. But it is more than a marathon of words from almost 150 expert speakers in around 35 different sessions and workshops.