Spree of buying clubs threatens football integrity
Investors assembling a portfolio of football clubs is changing football and existing regulation may not be big enough to cope with the burgeoning phenomenom of multi-club ownerships, which has tied up more than 9,000 football players and swathes of financially weak smaller clubs.
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"There is no festival of peace for us"
The Ukrainians present themselves as proud and self-confident, sad and thoughtful, and ready to give their all in the Olympic arenas. "Each of us thinks about the people who are defending our country," says Olympic champion Olha Kharlan. "It's hard, but that makes us even stronger!"
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Investigations into match-fixing in pre-Olympic table tennis competitions, and against the Chinese deputy president of the ITTF
On the opening day of the Paris Olympics, China's sport is once again in the spotlight: Was there yet more cheating in pre-Olympic competitions? Were the Paris nominations decided before the last qualifying events in the interests of high-ranking officials?
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Revolt of the Olympic working class
No Olympic athletes went on strike on the day that the staff at the sinfully expensive IOC hotel L'hôtel du Collectionneur went on strike, but swimming legends once again made it clear that their trust in the so-called fight against doping and the anti-doping system has been lost.
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The IOC violates the Olympic charter and tells the FBI to fuck off
Live blog from the second day of the 142nd IOC Session, including the conditional awarding of the 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics to the French Alps (no financial guarantees) and Salt Lake City (disturbing anti doping law).