LA Times Today, Op-Ed: Could this be the year ‘sportwashing’ backfires?
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This year’s sports calendar is bookended by two of the biggest global event: the Beijing winter Olympics in February and the men’s World Cup in Qatar starting in November.
Andres Martinez is a journalism professor at Arizona State University and in a guest L.A. Times op-ed, he writes these two anti-democratic host nations are using sports to help smooth their tarnished reputations.
Andres Martinez is a journalism professor at Arizona State University and in a guest L.A. Times op-ed, he writes these two anti-democratic host nations are using sports to help smooth their tarnished reputations.