Asia

  • By Stanis Elsborg- Senior analyst and head of conference, Play the Game
    19.05.2021 /
    What does the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and space politics have to do with each other? Quite a lot and it demonstrates China’s ability to mix sport and politics in their national self-promotion, writes senior analyst Stanis Elsborg.
  • Salman _Al -Khalifa _Tasnim News Agency _Wikimedia
    By Bonita Mersiades
    02.04.2019 /
    With the AFC elections coming up, former official within the Australian Football Federation and insider turned whistleblower on the Australian bid for the 2022 World Cup, Bonita Mersiades presents the history and context surrounding the current president of the AFC who stands unopposed at the election.
  • Photo: Steel Series/Flickr
    22.08.2018 /
    The inclusion of esports as a medal sport in the 2022 Asian Games has been put on hold after a recent OCA statement. A debate about esports’ possible admittance at the 2024 Paris Olympics is currently going on.
  • Photo: Christophe Moratal/Flickr
    By Andreas Selliaas
    23.01.2018 /
    The Pyeongchang Winter Games have already become a propaganda win for North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un. And it has become a much needed PR victory for the IOC after all the trouble with Russian doping. But everything is not as it should be.
  • Photo: Asger Røjle
    27.12.2017 /
    Artificial intelligence is gaining momentum in sports science and in society as a whole. At a recent conference in Tokyo, researchers and experts discussed how the Olympic Games in Tokyo will put to the test innovative ways of hosting a mega-sporting event.
  • Photo: Thomas Søndergaard/Play the Game
    26.11.2017 /
    Play the Game 2017 heard a less common narrative on Qatar’s successful 2022 World Cup bid from Hassan Al Thawadi, Secretary General of Committee for Delivery and Legacy.
  • Photo: Jomar Galvaz/Flickr
    03.11.2017 /
    The International Olympic Committee stands firm behind Jose ‘Peping’ Cojuangco Jr., despite serious fraud allegations.
  • Photo: Peretz Partensky/Flickr
    20.09.2017 /
    While the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games is heralded as the most important event in the history of Turkmenistan, the population suffers, findings in recent report by Human Rights Watch show.

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