MISSION

Our mission is to assist our audience in gaining an understanding of sportswashing, both in theory and practice. By using this knowledge and understanding, we hope that you can formulate your own ideas and opinions about the increasingly prevalent subject. We believe that learning about sportswashing and its impacts on our world today is crucial to creating spaces for questions, conversations, and debates from which we can all benefit.

Research Question: What is the impact of sportswashing on a country and how does it exploit the culture of professional sports?

The video by CBC Sports expresses the fact that Sportswashing is not a new idea promulgated by LIV Golf, the Olympics, and the World Cup, rather it gained momentum during boxing legend Ali's fighting tenure. In 1975, Ali and Joe Frazier were set to square off for the third time, except this time the fight would take place in Manilla, the Philippines whereas the first two were in America. Both of them would hang out with president Ferdinand Marcos as well as when Ali fought Foreman in the "Rumble in the Jungle," also in the Philippines.