<![CDATA[Environmental and sustainability discourses increasingly shape international sport-tourism events, including the Mandalika MotoGP. This study examines how environmental discourse was constructed in media coverage and stakeholder practices surrounding the 2025 Mandalika MotoGP. Using Fairclough's three-dimensional framework of critical discourse analysis, the study analyzes text, discursive practice, and socio-cultural practice. The data consist of 16 online news articles published by nine local and three national media outlets, complemented by interviews with an event organizer, a sanitation worker, and a spectator. Textual analysis shows that phrases such as clean event, green tourism, circular economy, and sustainable sport tourism framed the event as environmentally responsible. The analysis of discursive practices reveals that local government agencies and event organizers dominated media narratives by emphasizing preparedness, cleanliness programs, volunteer involvement, and circular-economy initiatives in waste management. At the socio-cultural level, interviews confirm that waste collection, sorting, and processing were enacted through collaboration among organizers, companies, sanitation workers, and volunteers. The study's novelty lies in applying Fairclough's framework to an international sport-tourism event rather than to conventional political or environmental news. The findings contribute to environmental communication studies by showing how sustainability discourse can legitimize event-based tourism development while marginalizing alternative community or activist perspectives.]]>
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