On its first day, the Play the Game communication conference on sport and society received a major boost in the form of a message of support from United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Have you ever left a football match feeling that the result was so unfair or bemusing that it must have been fixed?

The fourth Play the Game communication conference on sport and society got underway, November 6, with a speech by Director Jens Sejr Andersen, who welcomed all those attending the 'biggest-ever international event focusing on corruption in sport'.

During the 2005 Play the Game conference, students from The Danish School of Journalism will maintain a conference website with minute by minute coverage of events. Go to the Conference Pulse website (no longer available)

Three years ago Michel Zen-Ruffinen had to leave the highest administrative post in world football after a showdown with FIFA's powerful president Sepp Blatter.

DR Sport from the Danish Broadcasting Corporation has agreed to become host broadcaster for Play the Game and will also use the conference as the basis for a special theme night about “Sport and Fraud” on the national DR2 television channel

At Play the Game 2005 you will get a rare first-hand account from a top athlete on why she took performance enhancing drugs. The athlete is Kelli White, former World Champion sprinter, who was felled in the BALCO scandal and is now serving a two year ban from competition.

When it comes to Beijing 2008, China’s human rights record is not the only thing worth talking about. At Play the Game 2005, the debate broadens its scope from human rights to including the Chinese concept of humanistic Olympics and how China might change our idea of Olympism.