What can sport fans do if their team, or league, is being sportswashed?
- Written by Paul Bowell, Lecturer of Sport Managmnet and Sociology, Swinburne University of Technology
As sport and politics are ever more intertwined in 2024, so too are the number of nations and organisations turning to “sportswashing”.
Sportswashing uses sport to improve the reputation of an authoritarian regime, nation-state or organisation, or distract from negative actions such as poor human rights records.
It is a form of soft...
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