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A TERRIBLE reflection on the world of sport. That’s what construction union Ucatt general secretary Steve Murphy called the International Association of Athletics Federations decision to hold the 2019 Championships in Qatar.
The same can be said about Fifa deciding to hand Qatar the 2022 World Cup — though if you’re extremely generous you could claim that the extreme exploitation of migrant workers wasn’t quite as clear in 2010.
Since then Fifa have had many chances to strip Qatar of the tournament and faced countless calls to do so. The world athletics body should have known better than to follow Fifa’s lead.
The Khelif gender row shows no sign of being resolved to the satisfaction of anyone involved anytime soon, says boxing writer JOHN WIGHT
JAMES NALTON discusses how Fifa claims to be apolitical, but as Infantino and Juventus players stood behind Trump discussing war, gender, and global politics, the line between sport and statecraft vanished
Report raises alarm over ‘preventable deaths’ of labourers in Saudi Arabia
