Lessons learnt from the top sports crises of 2023

Planning and transparency can alleviate many of the crises we have seen in sport during 2023, but again it has been a year where foolhardy responses have done more harm than good.

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Lessons learnt from the top sports crises of 2022

We’ve seen over the years that good communications planning and crisis preparedness is vital for sports organisations – and in 2022 there were more high profile problems.

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