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Sportswashing: how Saudi Arabia lobbies the US's largest sports bodies
Saudi Arabia’s relatively sudden interest in sports can be construed as a soft power tactic to help distract from the kingdom’s ongoing human rights abuses and the Yemen crisisLast month, the foreign registration documentation for Saudi Arabia’s 2018 lobbying campaign in the United States were made available online. The documents... -
Eddie Hearn calls for VAR in British boxing after fight result is reversed
• Charlie Edwards fight a no-contest after Martínez late blow• Luke Campbell can still be champion, says HearnEddie Hearn has called for the introduction of VAR into British boxing after video replays came to the rescue of the WBC flyweight champion Charlie Edwards.In one of the more bizarre incidents seen...