Sport and politics

What is the relationship between sport and politics?

¡§Sport is always serious. It is organised: it is an industry; it is business, money, vested interests: it is a medium of and for ideology, prestige, status, nationalisam, internationalism, diplomacy and war.¡¨ (Tatz 1984 Pg.47)

¡§Sport is a political process based on play, game and posture. If the activity is not serious, neither can be the positions, political or otherwise, of the nation players.¡¨ (Kanin 1980 Pg.3)

For many nations, the development of international sporting contact can provide them a low-cost but high profile resource for publicising their policy on international issues or to state the point of view of other country.

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