Canny IOC makes sure it remains lord of the five rings
Olympic Letter from Japan: protest should not be about obeying establishment rules
Donald Clarke: Gangsta rap has nothing on our violent, bloody national anthems
Promising to make our rivers flow with the blood of our enemies is not very sportsmanlike
Opposition to Tokyo Games podium protest ban grows
More than 150 athletes, academics and social justice advocates signing an open letter to IOC
Tokyo Olympics social media teams banned from showing athletes taking the knee
IOC and Tokyo 2020 organisers gave message on Tuesday after GB’s football clash
Michael Johnson urges athletes to use their platforms to political effect
‘It is the silence around this issue over decades that has caused us to get to this point’
IOC facing a fight to prevent athletes taking a stand in Tokyo
Medal podium would provide perfect platform for movements like Black Lives Matter
Dr Harry Edwards: Fifty years on frontier of sport and race
Ex-Black Panther turned sociologist addressed GAA Summer School on Sport and Politics
The GAA isn’t the only sporting context where politics matters
Seán Moran: GAA Summer School on ‘Sport and Politics’ promises to be fascinating
OJ Simpson tried to outrun race issue but nobody in America is that fast
Murder trial made it clear to Simpson extent of fabrication he had created for himself
America at Large: ‘Marvellous’ Mal Whitfield a true pioneer
Wherever he went, he held training clinics and woke up a continent to athletics
Another Life: Why Ethna and I are confirmed islomaniacs
We’ve been people for whom, as Lawrence Durrell put it, ‘the mere knowledge that they are on an island fills them with an indescribable intoxication’
Sochi athletes could use platform to strike blow against demagogue
Western governments have cocked symbolic snoots at Vladimir Putin’s laws against freedom of speech and impact of anti-gay legislation
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