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Sports and Politics: August 13, 2014 issue of Other Voices
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http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2766.htm
Publisher: Connexions
Date Written: 13/08/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era.
Abstract: Sports in general, and the Olympics in particular, have never been free of politics. Allegations of bribery and cheating had already been part of the Olympics for centuries before that noteworthy day in 67 AD when the judges proclaimed the Emperor Nero winner of the Olympic chariot race even though he had been thrown from his chariot and failed to complete the race.
No doubt the judges who crowned Nero were keenly aware of his proclivity for executing those who displeased him. In the modern s...
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