The world of sport is reconfigured to the rhythm of geopolitical change. Large Saudi investments symbolize the power struggle between Asian regimes and Western democracies.

The great Eastern authoritarian regimes increasingly openly challenge the West and its primacy in search of a reconfiguration of a world order. The Saudi push has, according to experts, different motivations: the need to diversify an economy that will soon not be able to sustain itself on energy monoculture; the will to spur through sport a feeling of identity in a society with many young people.