The Top Stories for 2020
Sports Diplomacy, France, Basketball, Football, Les Bleus, Les Bleues Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff Sports Diplomacy, France, Basketball, Football, Les Bleus, Les Bleues Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff

The Top Stories for 2020

There’s a lot to be excited for as we kickoff the new decade.  I’m looking to 2020 as I continue to build out two key basketball stories of my own, but I also see 2020 as a break out year where many of the trends and movements in the global sports sphere finally bear fruit. Primarily, these are stories where cross-sport and cross-cultural influences—often influenced by different types of sports diplomacy—make all the difference.

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When Sports Integrity Meets Diplomacy
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When Sports Integrity Meets Diplomacy

Today the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)’s Executive Committee endorsed unanimously a recommendation that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be declared non-compliant for four years for its role in the latest Russian doping scandal. This means, should the signatories of the April 2018 International Standard for Code Compliance by Signatories (ISCCS) abide by the code they signed, Russia’s elite athletes will be prohibited from competing in elite international competitions until 2024.

This particular case raises the question: what happens when doping meets #sportsdiplomacy? A lot, it turns out.

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French Basketball in China & Phantom Documents
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French Basketball in China & Phantom Documents

I recently wrote a paper for the #GoldenGamesNUS sports diplomacy conference on the three times the French men’s basketball team played in China (1966, 1980, and 2006). The subject may seem odd to the casual eye, but these countries boast the oldest hoops traditions outside of North America, dating to 1893 (France) and 1895 (China). As it turned out, “La France en Chine: The Power of Basketball Diplomacy” is one of the more fun, quirky papers I’ve written and the challenges involved in stitching it together are instructive on many levels.

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