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The final episode of The Ticket takes a broad look at the future - of the Olympics, of Australia's place in the world game of football, of the rise and growing power of the athletes' voice and of Oscar Pistorius - a former icon of Paralympic sport who is soon to be released from jail after serving his sentence for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Sport's role in a turbulent world - how the Palestinian men's team represents more than football, the role of dialogue in trying to find peace, India's influence at the ICC and its adhoc approach to membership, plus is sport for refugees authentic or an exercise in celebrity humanitarianism?

Women compete, women win but when it comes to High Performance coaching in Australia, less than ten percent are female. The AIS has a plan to turn that around between Paris 2024 and Brisbane 2032. Plus, FIFA's new online safeguarding course that might be valuable for all sports from grassroots to elite.

The Paris Olympic organisers have been told by Tahiti locals at the reef break where surfing will be contested that a planned judging tower is a threat to the ecosystem, unnecessary and non-negotiable, plus Afghanistan cricket's challenge, the place of women's football in Iran, and the rise of PNG rugby league.

Members of Australia's ping-pong diplomacy team from the 1970s, who helped paved the way for diplomatic relations between Australia and China, are returning to Beijing this week marking 50 years since Australia's first embassy in China was opened, plus the role of diplomacy in Australian sport, and the emergence of AI in global sports integrity investigations

As the humanitarian crisis continues with the Israel-Gaza war, we go in search of those who use sport as a tool for peace and speak to others who measure their success.