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Olympics and Paralympics: why should we believe the promises of positive legacy for host communities? With #Paris2024 about to start, stories emerge from Queensland that their bid included an a $1 billion upgrade of the Gabba stadium that was not supported by a business case. One of the problems with holding games organising committees (OCOG) to account for cost overruns and the legacies that remain (or not, like the legacy of cost blowouts), is that most OCOGs are rapped up within months of the event. Further, the past few events have seen political and social reshuffling that reduces the ability for post-event accountability of governments, bid committees and OCOGS (think Paris 2024 election, Beijing 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Tokyo 2020 COVID-19, Rio 2016 President impeached between events, Sochi 2014 invasion of Crimea...). Why should the voting public trust the budget estimates and legacy promises from those who bid for, and put on these wonderful events ? How can they increase their social license? #Olympiclegacies #Paris2024 #Brisbane2032 #sociallicense https://lnkd.in/eJVp8gtD

An unfair victory in Paris leaves a bitter taste. Sportsmanship should always shine brighter than controversy. The Paris Olympics witnessed a win that many are calling into question. While the spirit of the games is meant to celebrate fairness and excellence, this moment has stirred controversy and disappointment. Let’s hope the true essence of sportsmanship prevails, and future competitions are defined by honor and integrity. 🏅⚖️ Hashtags: #ParisOlympics #UnfairWin #Sportsmanship #OlympicControversy #FairPlay #IntegrityInSports #Olympics2024 #SportsEthics

Great to chat recently on the Sky Sports Transfer Show. I talk about the groundbreaking Erling Haaland contract and the mechanics of Premier League transfer deals. 🔥⚽ Key Topics Discussed: 📝 Erling Haaland's Record-Breaking Deal: A 9.5-year contract—what does it mean for football and how does it mirror trends in U.S. sports? 💸 Profit & Sustainability Regulations (PSR): How do financial rules and amortisation affect long-term contracts? 🤝 Inside Premier League Contracts: Beyond wages—release clauses, loyalty bonuses, performance incentives, and more. 🌍 Unique Transfer Stories: From drafting a "no space travel" clause to navigating last-minute Deadline Day deal sheets. https://lnkd.in/eNhbsdeD

With just over a week until the #paris2024 Opening Ceremony (along the River Seine, no less), the summer of elite sport rolls on. Having recently done a spotlight on the legal issues that have dominated the lead-up to Paris, this second part is focussed on the contentious/regulatory matters that may well arise during the Games itself. In this article, I examine: ▶ Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter (re protest); ▶ Rule 40 of the Olympic Charter (re commercialisation of image); ▶ Disputes before the CAS Ad Hoc Division and CAS Anti-Doping Division (both of which are operating temporary offices in Paris); ▶ Other integrity issues (e.g. competition manipulation, illegal betting and so-called "technological" doping); and ▶ Ambush or parasitic marketing - the bane of "official" Olympic and Paralympic sponsors/partners. There is, of course, an element of crystal ball gazing in predicting what may go wrong, and the appeal of sport is often its unpredictability. However, if previous Olympiads are anything to go by, controversy is guaranteed - both on and off the field of play. 🏹🤺🏋♂️🤸♀️🤼♂️🚴♂️🏇🏊♂️🤽♂️🚣♂️ ⛵🏄♂️⚽🏀🏉🏐⚾🎾🏓🏑🥊🥋⛳ #paris2024 #olympics #paralympics #sportslaw

Hosting major sports events is not just about sports 🧐 The concrete example is how France’s mint 🏦( Monnaie de Paris ) took the olympic games as an opportunity to promote France’s culture and heritage by creating special coins for Paris 2024 🏅 👀 Did you spot similar initiatives for the territorial marketing ? #Paris2024 #Olympicgames #territorialmarketing

New blog post |✨ Discover the fascinating intersection of sports and intellectual property in our latest post: “The Olympic Games and the Nairobi Treaty: The Protection of the Olympic Symbols”! 🏅🌍 If you want to learn more, don't hesitate to read on. 👇 https://lnkd.in/gVq6ACRR

[SPORT] How can we explain the success of French athletes at the 2024 Olympic Games? 🥇🤔 There is the talent of the athletes, but one undeniable factor is the ability of the French sport model to produce champions. Part two of our report “The future of sport: what national and international policies ?” deals with sport as a social, political and geopolitical object by analyzing different models of sport governance at national and international levels. 💡 A study available on our website 👇 https://lnkd.in/e4d3ZXNf

Council of Europe is for #FairSport = #FairSocieties Today in Porto, at their 18th Conference, Council of Europe Sports Ministers adopted a resolution, underlining that in light of the societal benefits of sport, it has to be promoted as a common resource, fostering its social, health and educational role and preserving it for future generations. 🔗Text of the resolution: https://lnkd.in/d6hi6kam Ministers commit, and call for a fresh approach to #CollaborativeGoverning and #GoodGovernanceInSport. This notably implies for states and sport organisations to sustain a continuous dialogue with athletes, local clubs, concerned youth representatives and civil society, recognising them as instrumental partners in promoting values-based sport. The 19th Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for Sport will be hosted by the Principality of Monaco in 2026. 👉 Deepend your knowledge about the Council of Europe and sport here:

Before thinking about Paris 2024's opening ceremonies being one week from today, let's flash back to Paris 1924, in many ways the first modern Olympic Games. The Paris Games of 1924 fit historically in the window of five enormously significant Olympic Games sandwiched between the first and second World Wars- Antwerp 1920, Paris 1924, Amsterdam 1928, Los Angeles 1932 and Berlin 1936. That the Olympics simply returned in Antwerp in 1920, after WWI caused the cancelation of the 1916 Games is probably significant enough. No Olympic truce for us 20th Century types. Amsterdam saw women on the track for the first time, Los Angeles marked a return to America and all that LA symbolizes in Olympic history, and Berlin is the culmination of the Olympics and political and social spectacle as Jesse Owens defied Hitler's ideals on supremacy as sport was a surrogate for statecraft. It is in these "sandwiched Games," the Olympics first began addressing the issues that defined the next one hundred years, gender, race, inclusion, opportunity and global politics of society not just sport. There is probably no better lens to see the modern Olympics coming of age than that of Paris 1924. Professional coaches, if not athletes. Yes, even tennis players like Rene Lacoste were amateurs, yes that Lacoste. It was the Olympics of Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell made famous in "Chariots of Fire," of Johnny Weissmuller and Duke Kahanamoku who remain famous even today anywhere there is water, and of Jackson Scholz and the incomparable Paavo Nurmi. 1924 was also the year that Coca-Cola began the longest continuously running sports sponsorship in history with the Olympics that will celebrate its centennial in Paris this year. These Games would mark Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s, the father of the revived Olympics, last as President of the IOC. The folks at The Atlantic have compiled an amazing photographic history of the 1924 Paris Games to help us get ready for the 2024 Paris Games. #Olympics, #HistoryofSports #GlobalSports #SportsSponsorship

With this year's Olympic Games approaching the starting block, we look at how the numbers stack up. As events go, there’s none bigger than the Olympic Games. It attracts the most participants, the biggest audiences and, of course, the highest price tag. Paris 2024 in July will be no different. Organisers expect 300,000 people to line the banks of the river Seine to watch the opening ceremony – 10,500 athletes will compete and 20,000 businesses registered to tender for games contracts. For 17 days it will take over the French capital and the world of sports, attracting a potential worldwide audience of four billion viewers. Final figures for the Paris Games are yet to be realised, but estimates are that it’ll cost US$9.6 billion. Click here to read more: https://lnkd.in/ezefS6uX