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Dr. Alan McDougall discussed the concept of “sportwashing” to i24news following criticism directed at professional golfers participating in a tournament in Saudia Arabia.
“When nation-states realized that sport was also about making money and gaining political and cultural prestige, it was susceptible to washing,” McDougall said.
McDougall is a professor in the Department of History and the European Studies program in the College of Arts whose research interests include the history of sport.