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The authorities have linked sport to nation building and tourism, and thrown their weight behind football.
The world’s largest women’s sporting event is being hosted in Africa for the first time.
A shrinking pool of host cities, high costs, and cultural questions about the monarchy: why the Commonwealth Games are under threat.
Studies show South Africa did a lot right when it hosted the football World Cup. Qatar can do the same if it learns from South Africa.
Technology is often blamed for “locking down” major bike races and making them predictable. Yet data analysis shows that Tours in the “classic era” weren’t always thrill rides.
Sponsorship is key to holding some of the most popular events in the world.
The New South Wales government has come in for heavy criticism over its $2 billion plan to knock down and rebuild two of Sydney’s largest sports stadiums.
Investing in staging sport is ultimately a matter of turning the entire host environment into a stage.
A perfect storm of personalities, demand and money has created unprecedented hype. How should the media respond?
The cricket World Cup’s opening game, which pits Australia against England on Valentine’s Day, is the latest twist in a summer in which Australia has played host to two of the world’s biggest sporting…
The 2014 Brazil World Cup and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games are becoming a running story, and not in the way organisers might like. We have seen news about public riots, lack of preparation, low quality infrastructure…
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Sport Management, University College Dublin
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Associate Professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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PhD Candidate in Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professeur en Stratégie et en Entrepreneuriat, TBS Education
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Management, Deakin University
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Professor and Director, Center for Sports and Management, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
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Associate Professor in Sport Policy & Management, Qatar University
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Associate professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University
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Head of the School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University
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Lecturer, Sport Management, Deakin University
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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PhD Candidate, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management