On The Game 17

11/12/2017

Check out our highlights from our daily Instagram stories.

10/12/2017

“You’re not going to be able to break through - you’re not going to be able to make a mark in journalism unless you do it differently. My advice to a young journalist starting up is to really look at themselves in the mirror and just say right, what is my value adding? What can I do differently that no one else can do?” - Journalist Declan Hill on how to stand out in the changing journalism field.

‘If you want to be a journalist, do it differently, so you get a unique brand and a mark on it.” A journalist since the early 1990s, Declan Hill is an expert in match-fixing and corruption in…

08/12/2017

Here is our fourth and final FULL-TIME Analysis. To the entire Play the Game and Danish Institute for Sport Studies team – thank you for letting us join in on the action.

Have a final read of our favourite moments of Play the Game 2017 and have a great Friday!

Welcome to the fourth and final FULL-TIME analysis of . Highlights from WEDNESDAY, 29 November At the main session, White collar crime in professional sport: Alex Duff answering a question …

07/12/2017

It's FULL-TIME once again. Here are our favourite moments from Day 3 of Play the Game. Today's analysis includes lots of fun multimedia! Have a watch of some of our exclusive interviews.

Here’s what went on during the Tuesday morning plenary session, Sustainable mega-events: A distant dream?: Harry Arne Solberg, Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology star…

06/12/2017

Our analysis for Day Two of the conference has arrived. Click the link to have a read.

Welcome back. Let’s talk about Day Two and start with ‘International Sport on Trial: Which case for the prosecution? “The big challenge is to archive conviction, it is very difficult to…

05/12/2017

It's FULL-TIME!

Click here to read our picks of the best quotes and highlights from . Here is a detailed summary of Day 1 of the conference. We will be posting one a day until Friday.

On the Game 17 presents: HIGHLIGHTS from the 10th Play the Game conference: OPENING SESSION – Sunday, 26th November Director of Play the Game/The Danish Institute of Sport Studies, Henrik H.…

05/12/2017

"According to the European Convention on Human Rights ‘privacy’ does in this case not exist, it has been abolished through the athletes' agreement.”

Between training and competition, doping controls are a daily obligation for athletes. WADA’s websystem ADAMS, collects personal data of athletes to organise and simplify such controls. Since athle…

02/12/2017

“You have shown us what can be achieved with personal courage, unwavering commitment and tireless efforts."

This years Play the Game award was presented at the 2017 conference in Eindhoven.Since 2014, the scandals pointing to government organised doping have been at the forefront of international sport r…

02/12/2017

The rooney rule: “This is not a hiring mandate. It’s not positive discrimination, not a hiring quota, none of that. All it is, is letting somebody have the chance to compete.”

An NFL rule is being considered by European football clubs as a way to combat the low level of minority representation in coaching and managerial positions.The Rooney rule was introduced by th…

30/11/2017

In what way eSports are sports?

Play the Game speakers give their answers:

According to their order of appearance:
Ian Smith, Integrity Commissioner, Esports Integrity Coalition, the UK
Alex Lim, Secretary General, International e-Sports Federation (IeSF), South Korea
Ivo van Hilvoorde, Lecturer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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30/11/2017

Congratulations to the Stepanovs and Hajo Seppelt on winning the Play The Game 2017 award!

We were all inspired by hearing him speak and were lucky enough to have him on our last live stream which was posted just yesterday before the award ceremony.

We hope you all enjoyed our coverage during the conference. Thanks to everyone for being so willing to speak to us and for all the retweets and likes! We will still be posting follow up stories, lots of pictures and more videos in the coming 2 weeks so please stick around and tell your friends and colleagues 🙂 on a final note, before we all get some much needed rest - we feel very privileged to have been able to hear such prominent people from the sporting community speak and to have met you all. It was a very educational 4 days and we thank you all for making it the experience that it was. 😁 - From the On The Game 17 Newsdesk.

29/11/2017

Juha Kanerva is a sports writer and historian from Finland. “The best thing in Finland is nature - it’s beautiful and pure. Clean water and nice forests. Everybody who comes to Finland should visit the forests, maybe alone or with a good friend, just to hear the silence. It’s a large country with quite few people, so there are a lot of silent places, which is really beautiful.” This is Juha’s third Play The Game conference. He first attended one in Copenhagen, and then in Aarhus. 🖊🌳🌲🍃🌿