Comment: IOC President holds on to power while federations face financial problems

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View this email in a browser Play the Game Newsletter 4 April 2020 IOC President holds on to power while federations face financial problems   Photo: TOCOG COMMENT: Investigative reporter Jens Weinreich discloses how IOC President Thomas Bach manages the crisis around the Tokyo Games. Criticism is stifled and there is no financial plan for sports federations affected by the postponement. Read the comment How federations share the revenues from the Olympic Games   Photo: Greg Martin/IOC ANALYSIS: A number of international sports federations are financially heavily dependent on their share of the revenues from the Olympic Games. Investigative reporter Jens Weinreich reveals how the IOC plans to distribute the money from Tokyo. Read the analysis All sport is global: A hard lesson from the pandemic   Photo: Minda Haas Kuhlmann/Flickr ANALYSIS: The global Covid-19 pandemic has shown, in the starkest terms, that what globalisation has given to sport, it can just as easily take away, argues David Rowe in this analysis from Open Forum. Read the analysis Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share Tweet Share Forward Play the Game 2020 E-mail addresses on our mailing list come from personal contacts, published lists or through subscription requests made via our homepage. Frederiksgade 78B, 2. sal DK-8000 Aarhus C www.playthegame.org    Unsubscribe    Update subscription