Sport Diplomacy in the Land of Iga and Lewandowski

Great Game Lab Co-Director Andrés Martinez spent a week in Poland giving talks at universities and meeting with various sports teams and organizations on a visit organized by the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw. The trip reminded him, as he reflects in this VAR, of how sport is increasingly binding people across borders, even when politics and other forces may not always do so, and how it also binds people across time, generations, and political eras. Martinez was left mightily impressed by Poland, an astonishing success story of the past few decades.