Via the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a report on the potential for Australia to utilize sports diplomacy in the Pacific:
As China’s coercive influence tightens around the Pacific islands, Australia finds itself in [...]
September
1,
2024
Via The New Yorker, a report on the growth of tennis in China and the complex role of the nation in the global sport:
There are approximately twenty-three million tennis players in China and exactly one Olympic [...]
August
16,
2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at how a focus on niche sports paid off for Jakarta at the 2024 Olympics as part of its overall athletic diplomacy strategy:
“A golden day for Indonesian sports,” exulted The Jakarta [...]
The Guardian has a lovely evocation of an Olympic table-tennis match between athletes from China and Taiwan in the early days of the Paris Games. The article captures the excitement of the competition, featuring a player known as [...]
August
1,
2024
Via NPR, an article on how, after competing in table tennis at the Paris Olympics, athletes from North Korea and South Korea chatted and smiled as they posed for a selfie together:
Lim Jong-hoon of South Korea [...]
Via Foreign Policy, a look at the green sport movement that is pushing for change globally:
In April 1929, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) met in Lausanne, Switzerland, to grant the hosting rights for the 1932 [...]