National football associations are lining up to endorse Infantino for a fourth term as Fifa president.
- Senior Lecturer in Sport Management, Loughborough University
FIFA can pause the match and sell the spectacle, but the 2026 World Cup shows the limits of its control over global football.
After the headlines and the hype, only one world record was broken in Las Vegas, though many athletes set personal bests.
These games should compel traditional sport to solve its fundamental problems and reflect upon the true value of sport and athletes.
They might be rowing the same course now but things still aren’t equal for women rowers at the boat race
As sport researchers, we meticulously study international sporting events, focusing on their impacts and legacies.
The policy was announced in response to a report that found a culture of “catastrophic safeguarding failures”.
Research shows that hosting the Olympic Games rarely results in the legacy politicians aim for when selling the idea to the public.
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