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Studies show South Africa did a lot right when it hosted the football World Cup. Qatar can do the same if it learns from South Africa.
Cities vie with each other to present global sporting events as a way to position themselves as world-class cities. However, this marketing often exacerbates social inequalities.
Sporting extravaganzas are a way for globalising cities in emerging market economies to try and play the “modernity game”. But they don’t make the rules, and so they can never “win”.
The marketing wizardry used by sports multinationals to sell these little round things by the truckload.
Some Gallic goals might cheer up the French, but they certainly won’t save Hollande.
More male babies were born in South Africa nine months after the country hosted the 2010 World Cup. There’s science behind it.
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