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What the 2022 World Cup Actually Cost Qatar
The $200 billion figure is a decade of metro, airport and city building, not a tournament budget. Here is the honest accounting, and how it compares with previous hosts.
Qatar Sports Investments and PSG: The Economics of a Club
Bought for tens of millions, valued in the billions, and loss-making for most of the period in between. The PSG case separates asset appreciation from operating performance more clearly than any other in sport.
beIN Media: Sports Rights, Piracy and the Cost of Exclusivity
A sports broadcaster owns nothing but a legal construct. When industrial-scale piracy tested that construct across a whole region, the result was a WTO ruling and a lesson in enforcement risk.
Al Jazeera: The Broadcaster That Changed Arab Media
Launched in 1996 with a newsroom hired en masse from a collapsed BBC venture, Al Jazeera broke a regional broadcast monopoly. It has never been commercially self-sustaining, and remains deeply contested.