@playthegame-org.bsky.social is deeply concerned to hear that Anatoly Kotau, international coordinator of the BSSF/Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation, has disappeared in Turkey. We worry he's victim to persecution by Russian/Belarusian authorities. More on BSSF fb page www.facebook.com/bssfbel

Sport has a very peculiar way of thanking those who help sport clean itself of doping, corruption and crime. The more important the case, the tougher the sanction: www.sportschau.de/stepanovs-cr...

Day of shame: Qatari officials and their allies contest Petra Sörling's election and threaten delegates. With 104:102 votes, IOC member Sörling won the ITTF election against Khalil Al-Mohannadi. For now. 💰 💰 💰 Qatar will take the matter to court. www.the-inquisitor-magazine.com/day-of-shame...

It looks like some ITTF officials survived the night in Doha. Something is developing on their website... All the background information here: www.sportandpolitics.de/aggressionen...

Ten years have gone since we thought FIFA would never be the same (and certainly not worse). BBC's James Oliver takes a beautiful walk down memory lane with Andrew Jennings at www.the-inquisitor-magazine.com/10th-anniver...

Israel optrapper massive bombardementer i Gaza. Alt for mange civile ofre. Nødhjælp bliver brugt som våben. Og nødhjælpsarbejdere er mål. Det må stoppe. Var sammen med disse gode mennesker i Folketingets Udenrigsudvalg for at opfordrer til større dansk engagement. Der må handles !

🚨 The ClearingSport webinar is tomorrow – and already 400+ people have registered! The webinar will feature a detailed presentation of the proposal, followed by panel discussions with expert stakeholders 📢 🔗 Read more and register now👇 www.playthegame.org/news/join-th...

Trump declares 2 April "Liberation Day". By sheer coincidence, it is the 220th birthday of the great Danish fairy tale-author Hans Christian Andersen. I have no clue why I came to think of one of Andersen's funniest stories, so irrelevant for emperors today. 😏 andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersho...

Happy to contribute to this article by Scott Reid www.ocregister.com/2025/03/18/i...

Maybe the democratic countries that drove the founding of WADA and remain the main contributors to anti-doping should remind WADA about the meaning of "freedom of expression"? Or has anti-doping become more important than civil rights?