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The Belarusian Athletes Who Stopped Saying Everything’s Fine
Read more: The Belarusian Athletes Who Stopped Saying Everything’s FineBelarus athletes protest: hundreds signed against Lukashenko in 2020, and the IOC found their own Olympic committee had failed to protect them.
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The Number That Kept Nicaraguan Football Playing
Read more: The Number That Kept Nicaraguan Football PlayingNicaragua football coronavirus: the league played on because officials cited four cases. Doctors and monitors were counting a different country.
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Belarus Played On Because Stopping Meant Weakness
Read more: Belarus Played On Because Stopping Meant WeaknessBelarus football coronavirus: the Vysshaya Liga became the last league on earth because Lukashenko decided that stopping it would look like losing control. By the second week of April 2020, the Vysshaya Liga was one of two professional football leagues still playing anywhere on the planet. The Champions League was suspended. The Euros were postponed.…
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How Olympic Neutrality Silences Dissent and Protects Power
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Show and Empire’s New Strategy
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Amber Glenn and the Limits of Visibility Politics
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How Super Bowl LX Amplifies Zionist Political Messaging
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The Olympics and the Collapse of Neutrality
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British Olympian Posts Anti-ICE Message on Olympic Opening Day
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Team Israel, World Baseball, and the Politics of Silence
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Bad Bunny, the Super Bowl, and America’s Halftime Split
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Sports as Infrastructure: How Games Power Capital and State