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Inclusion v Fairness: contradicting answers to one of sport’s most contontroversial issues

The political dimension of an athlete's vaccination decision

Professional athletes in Europe: the need for up-to-date laws

Will the Sport governing bodies stand by and watch the rest of imprisoned Iranian athletes be hanged

Needs Must: Second generation Commission-UEFA Arrangement reaffirms the EU’s leading role

Football, Europe, Identity - Why Representation Matters – Part 2

Football, Europe, Identity - Why Representation Matters

The socio-political soft-power role of elite athletes through sport diplomacy

Sport Diplomacy's Influence to Address Inequality

Women’s sport under Taliban regime: An issue that the International Community must take seriously

Decision-making and consultation: FIFA’s biennial World cup

Small Nations and the Olympics

“Coach, slap me please.” A tale of negotiated constructs and safeguarding in sport revealed in Tokyo

Rule 50, athlete activism and protests at the Tokyo Olympics

The Nexus Between Sport Diplomacy and the European Union

The International Olympic Committee between aspiration and reality

The impact of the EU-UEFA Arrangement for Cooperation not withstanding EURO 2020 postponement (I)

A brief overview of Esports during Covid-19

25 years later, the multifaceted legacy of the Bosman ruling

The centrality of the UEFA in the light of an EU Sport Diplomacy