Play the Game
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Play the Game is an initiative promoting democracy, transparency, and freedom of expression in world sport💥 #goodgovernance #ptg2024
Aarhus, Denmark
Joined March 2009
In Afghanistan, the Taliban has forced women’s sport underground⚠️ However, the GOAL programme spearheaded by Olympian Friba Rezayee from Afghanistan is challenging that 💪 Read or watch her full speech from #ptg2025👇 https://t.co/A9mP2p3sRK
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Why are African national teams increasingly filled with Europe-born players, and how is this linked to the continent’s stadium boom? ⚽🤔 Steffany Nde examines what drives these trends👇 https://t.co/EV1qDIYSbz
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At #ptg2025, key voices called for new leadership, transparency, and renewed dialogue in global anti-doping. @usantidoping says repeated meeting requests to WADA’s leadership were declined. Read the article and the full speech by Travis Tygart 👇 https://t.co/zCWWZysEVx
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🗨️As the EU drafts a new vision for sport, voices at the MOVE Congress in Copenhagen warned that policy ideals and everyday participation are worlds apart. Read the article 👇 https://t.co/VWChsJiDgv
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Abdullah Ibhais at our recent @playthegame_org conference!
🚨 BREAKING: Former Qatar World Cup media manager Abdullah Ibhais just exposed Qatar’s entire World Cup propaganda system. At Play the Game 2025, Ibhais revealed that Qatar’s Supreme Committee secretly profiled journalists worldwide, tracking their social media, labeling them as
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💥 “Perhaps it’s time their enablers in the sports industry were treated the same way.” At #ptg2025, @LindsAKennedy exposed how online betting empires built on trafficking and torture still sponsor European football🚨 Watch the full presentation👇 https://t.co/in7OQ6OB43
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Now on YouTube: my 11-minute talk from the 2025 @playthegame_org conference, about athlete advocacy, grassroots organizing and the case for open-gender pairs and dance ⛸️ #ptg2025
https://t.co/X6vD4dD2a4
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14 days ago, we kicked off Play the Game 2025 ❗ I opened the conference with a call to drive dialogue for democracy in sport... For speeches and video-on-demand👉 https://t.co/l5Fc8x2BgZ
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14 days ago, we kicked off Play the Game 2025 ❗ I opened the conference with a call to drive dialogue for democracy in sport. In times when open debate is under pressure – both in sport and in...
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🎥 Missed Play the Game 2025? You can now watch sessions on demand - from whistleblowing, governance to athlete rights, geopolitics and inclusion of transgender athletes in sport. 🔗 Watch here👉 https://t.co/UAgxZROkpi
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🎥 Missed Play the Game 2025? You can now watch sessions on demand - from whistleblowing, governance to athlete rights, geopolitics and inclusion of transgender athletes in sport. 🔗 Watch here👉 https://t.co/UAgxZROkpi
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It's a wrap!💥🙏 After an inspiring week filled with debate, insight, and exchange, #ptg2025 has officially come to an end❗ 📸 You can now view and download photos from the conference for personal/editorial use (credit: Thomas Søndergaard)👇 https://t.co/OzcAGFfOWZ
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You (should) know the @playthegame_org conference never disappoints! ✨ Here is this year's #DAiSI delegation in Tampere, Finland! 👏🏻 We had 4️⃣ days of insightful debates and learning. Can't wait to do it again in 2027! 🤩 #MSCA #ptg2025 #SportsIntegrity
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“The @coe is committed to protecting human rights and fighting corruption in sports worldwide” Congratulations to #PlayTheGame for highlighting a broad range of challenges facing sports today! #SportsIntegrity #HumanRights #Tampere @FinlandCoE @Tamperekaupunki
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On the last day of #ptg2025, the Play the Game Award was awarded to two courageous whistleblowers in sport: @MagsGotSwag12 and @AbdullahIbhais👇 https://t.co/v7DyNG5CF0
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At @playthegame_org, he spoke about the very sophisticated media strategy applied by Qatar in order to both manage and deflect accusations of human rights abuses connected with the World Cup in Qatar. https://t.co/tMVIsJpvVO
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Speakers at Play the Game described how shifting power towards the Global South, political influence, and commercial interests are redrawing football’s global map and testing its systems of governa...
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📢 More articles from #ptg2025 are now live❗ If you’ve missed parts of the conference or want to dive deeper into the key discussions, our talented journalists @ZidanSports, Steve Menary, and Lars Jørgensen have you covered👇 https://t.co/Gi91mbFGuR
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Football isn’t just sport in #Rwanda, it’s propaganda. “Visit Rwanda” distracts the world from political prisoners like #VictoireIngabire, a silenced nation under a 30-year dictatorship, & the millions killed in #DRC. Speaking at #PlayTheGame in Finland on how #Kagame uses sports
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Read the article 'Sports Interest Group Calls On UEFA, IOC To Help Belarusian Dissident' by John Affleck in @Forbes👇 https://t.co/AJSYaAPiJE
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Play the Game, a good governance group for the sports industry, has called on UEFA and the IOC to pressure Russia and Belarus to secure the release of Anatol Kotau.
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Another inspiring day filled with sharp insights, open debates, and challenging questions about the future of sport at #ptg2025 Photographer Thomas Søndergaard captured the atmosphere and energy across the many sessions throughout day 3 📸 👇 https://t.co/ygmbG3ZywO
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DAY 4! 💥 We’re live! It’s the final day of the conference - but we still have a full and exciting programme ahead! https://t.co/qvD9MDoHWZ
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