Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff

Interview with Dr Lindsay Sarah KRASNOFF /ON FRANCE AND THE NBA GLOBAL GAMES

In January 2020, Paris hosted its first National Basketball Association (NBA) global game.

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As the second season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) nears its halfways point, all eyes will soon be upon Kigali, where the league will hold its culminating playoffs in May. The league’s return to Rwanda’s 10,000-seat Kigali Arena is significant; it is where this historic initiative– the first professional pan-African sports league– got its start last May in the midst of the global pandemic. The BAL’s return marks another triumph for Rwanda’s sports diplomacy strategy.

(CNN)This week's news that 20-year-old English football player Mason Greenwood has been arrested on suspicion of the rape and assault of a woman raises the question of whether the young star will be treated with kid gloves by the football industry, as many other high-profile athletes have been in the past.

Two-time Olympian Tessa Worley, France’s best hope for a medal in women’s alpine skiing, is ready for this year’s Winter Games in China despite the uncertainty that surrounds the new course in Xiaohaituo.

Thirty years ago, U.S. women flexed their athletic might at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games, the first post-Cold War Olympics, when they took home all five of the United States’ gold medals. Since then, several transformative athletes emerged to take the recognition and participation of women’s alpine skiing to new heights, inspiring the next generation of rising stars: Picabo Street, Julia Mancuso, Lindsey Vonn, and now, Mikaela Shiffrin.

On Tuesday, the world’s top-ranked women’s basketball team, the United States, will play its first Olympic group phase game in Tokyo. But the team’s toughest group phase game is likely to come Aug. 2 against fifth-ranked France.The French team, Les Bleues, is intimately acquainted with the style, tactics and hoops culture of the Americans thanks to nearly half of the Olympic team having played in the United States.

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The United States has a heritage of athlete political and civic engagement. American athletes’ civil rights advocacy, a decades-old phenomenon, rose to international attention in the 1960s. Olympic track stars Tommie Smith, John Carlos, and Wyomia Tyus, NBA champions Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tennis aces Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King, and boxing great Muhammad Ali are among those known for their protests. Today they’re considered trailblazers but at the time they suffered conse...

Now, the hard work begins. For the past four years, the retreat of U.S. leadership in diplomacy, the immigration ban, withdrawal from the Paris Accords, cavalier attitude toward the COVID-19 pandemic, and much more has diminished the country’s overseas image to historic lows. According to a recent Pew Research Center study, only 41% of Britons, 31% of French, and 26% of Germans view the United States favorably. Moreover, U.S. soft power, the ability to be liked, to persuade, and to lead is al...

This week the NBA lands in Paris as the Charlotte Hornets face the Milwaukee Bucks with Nicolas Batum (Hornets), a French-born NBA player, in tow. Excitement is rampant over the league’s historic first regular season game in France. The game has already been such a success that the NBA has announced a return next January.

(CNN)Paris has hidden gems aplenty if you know where to look, but one of the French capital's best kept secrets is the world's oldest original basketball court. The historic hoops venue is buried in the basement of a building a stone's throw from the famous Folies Bergere theater in the northern ninth arrondissement. And as the NBA arrives in Paris this week, so does one of the lucky few to have dribbled on its fabled floorboards.

NBA basketball is coming to Paris this week with a top-flight game being held here for the first time. The move is all about spreading the brand. One of those at the match will be Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, a sport and diplomacy consultant whose book "The making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010" traces France's quest to create elite athletes in both basketball and football. She joined us for Perspective and told us it's inevitable that sport and diplomacy mix.

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