Why it's so hard to kick fossil fuels out of sport

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From high-profile sponsorship deals and long-haul flights to sporting equipment made from petrol-based products like carbon fibre - modern sport reflects society's oil dependency, explains Loughborough University's Theo Lorenzo Frixou

Governments and public relations firms are under pressure to, in UN secretary-general António Guterres's words, stop "fuelling the madness" and ban fossil fuel advertising or cut ties with the industry....

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