News on athlete power and athlete representation

• First output ready from project to strengthen athlete power in sport

  28.09.2021
  The project on strengthening athlete power in sport (SAPIS) has released a review of academic literature about athletes and sports governance and makes it available for free to anyone with an interest in the subject.
  

• Athletes knock the legs from under global sports governance

  22.04.2021
  Sports governance worldwide has had the legs knocked out from under it. Yet, national and international sports administrators are slow in realizing the magnitude of what has hit them.
  

• Making a case for athlete advocacy: Humanitarians, Olympism and good governance

  23.06.2020
  It is the responsibility of sport governing bodies to support and encourage humanitarian athletes who speak out for causes grounded in the principles of Olympism, argue Mary Hums, Eli A. Wolff and Nina Siegfried in this comment.
  

• Athletes and academics join forces to open more avenues for athlete influence

  06.03.2020
  Backed by Erasmus+ funds, a coalition of European athlete representatives and academics will map existing structures of athlete representation and try to develop new ones over the next three years. Play the Game acts as the coordinator of the project.
  

• It is important to ensure that athletes' voices are heard

  06.03.2020
  When partners in the SAPIS project met in Denmark in February, they expressed great hopes for the outcomes of the project as the need for empowering athletes and ensuring their voices are heard in sports organisations is pressing.