- Ban of Russian Olympic Team: Cold War at its "Best"!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The West is using both old and new tactics to demonize and discredit all of its opponents, in what is becoming a new Cold War.
- Beyond a Boundary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founders of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of the game of cricket, this book raises serious questions about race, class, politics, and the realities of colonial oppression.
- Beyond a Boundary - 50th anniversary
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
This year marks the 50th anniversary of CLR James’ wonderful, groundbreaking work Beyond a Boundary. Beyond a Boundary blends politics and memoir, history and journalism, biography and reportage, in a manner that transcends literary, sporting and political boundaries.
- The Biased Report that led to Banning Russians at the Olympics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Canadian lawyer Richard Mclaren's report infuenced the World Anti-Doping Agency to call for the banning of all Russian athletes from the Rio Games.
- Boycott BP's Baku games
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Baku, the oil capital of Azerbaijan, is set to host the 2015 European games. However, it's not just fun and games in this city. Azerbaijan is a country famous for oppressing freedom of speech, abusing journalists and keeping political prisoners. Furthermore, the main sponsor for the European games is oil tycoon BP. The 2015 games are a slew of political and environmental controversies.
- Canada-Sovet series over ... winner in doubt
The 1972 Canada-Soviet hockey summit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
This article was written shortly after the end of the 1972 hockey series between a Soviet team and a Canadian team comprised of players from the National Hockey League. The closely fought series saw the Canadians win four games, the Soviets three, with one game tied.
- Crimea, Georgia and the New Olympic Sport: Russia Bashing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
- Fifty years ago, Cassius Clay ‘shook up the world’ by winning the heavyweight title – and
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The victory of the underdog who became Muhammad Ali – and how it wasn't just sport's hierarchies that were rocked by it. On the night of February 25, 1964, the 22 year old Cassius Clay defeated the supposedly undefeatable Sonny Liston to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
- Freikörperkultur
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A German movement whose name translates to Free Body Culture which endorses a naturistic approach to sports and community living.
- Going for Gold: A History of Olympic Controversies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
While the Olympics serve to contribute to mutual understanding and finding commonality in difference, from its inception as a religious festival in ancient Greece to the huge celebrations in the twenty-first century seen on television by billions of people, it has been quite rare for the Games to pass without controversy.
- Hitler's Propaganda Machine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- International Workers' Olympiads
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
International Workers' Olympiads were an international sporting event arranged between 1925 and 1937 by Socialist Workers' Sport International (SASI). It was an organisation supported by social democratic parties and International Federation of Trade Unions. Workers' Olympiads were an alternate event for the Olympic Games. The participants were members of various labor sports associations and came mostly from Europe.
The Workers' Olympiads were created as a counterweight for the Olympic Games, which were criticized for being confined for the upper social classes and privileged people. The international workers' sports movement did not believe that the true Olympic spirit could be achieved in an Olympic movement dominated by the aristocratic leadership. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee, had always opposed women's participation and supported the cultural superiority of white Europeans over other races. His followers, Henri de Baillet-Latour and Avery Brundage, were openly anti-semitic and both collaborated with the Nazis. On the contrary, the Workers' Olympiads opposed all kinds of chauvinism, sexism, racism and social exclusiveness. The Olympic Games were based in rivalry between the nations, but the Workers' Olympiads stressed internationalism, friendship, solidarity and peace.
- Net Worth
Exploding The Myths of Pro Hockey
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Olympic torch stokes warm pride and fiery protest among aboriginals
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Differing opinions between aboriginal groups towards the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Torch Relay.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 13, 2016
Sports and Politics
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era. In the modern sports era, survival and success depend largely on the favour of corporations, whose power to provide or withhold funding and sponsorships now shape every aspect of sport, including athletes' incomes and lifestyles. It is now difficult to remember that only a few decades ago, corporate logos were strictly forbidden at Olympic events, while athletes were prohibited from accepting any kind of payment for their involvement in sports. The corporate conquest of sports closely parallels the corporate colonization of nearly all aspects of modern life. Accompanying this in recent years has been the increasing injection of militaristic content into sports spectacles. In Canada, hockey games are now commonly preceded by rituals honouring militarism. In the United States, similar spectacles have been staged for years. In this issue, we feature resources which remind us that resistance to the commercialization, corporatization, and militarization of sports is also part of our heritage.
- Power Games: A Political History of the Olympic Games
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
- Reality check: Croatian uniform virtually identical to...
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Some media reports are ga-ga that the Croatian team will be wearing its red and white checkered uniform in the 2018 World Cup final on Sunday against France. Far from being innocent or fashionable, this is ominous. By allowing this uniform to be worn, FIFA is emboldening the Croatian fascists and their European allies such those in Ukraine.
- Red Sport International
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The International Association of Red Sports and Gymnastics Associations, commonly known as Red Sport International (RSI) or Sportintern was a Comintern-supported international sports organization established in July 1921. The RSI was established in an effort to form a rival organization to already existing "bourgeois" and social democratic international sporting groups. The RSI held 3 summer games and 1 winter games called "Spartakiad" in competition with the Olympic games of the International Olympic Committee before being dissolved in 1937.
- Russia misses out while former drug cheats take their place in Rio
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
While Russia’s track and field team, including athletes with no doping history, sit out the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, there's a host of athletes who will be allowed to compete in Brazil despite having had their own issues with banned substances. In addition to International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) decision to ban entire Russian track and field team from Rio Olympics (with only one exclusion – the long-jumper Darya Klishina, who lives and trains in USA), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stated that Russian athletes with any doping history will not be allowed to compete in Rio, even if they have served a penalty. Here's a look at some of the drug-tainted athletes from other countries, who meanwhile will be able to take their place in Rio.
- Socialist Workers' Sport International
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Socialist Workers' Sport International (German: Sozialistische Arbeitersport Internationale, SASI) was an international socialist sporting organisation, based in Lucerne. It was founded in 1920, and consisted of six national federations (with a combined membership of about one million) at the time of its founding.
- Sport, Peace and Development: International Worker Sport 1913-2013
A festschrift book in honour of International Workers and Amateurs in Sports Confederation (CSIT)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Sport is seen to play an important role as a promoter for peace and social integration in different geographical, cultural and political contexts.
- Sporting Boycott of South Africa
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Sports & Games Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to sports and games in the Sources directory for the media.
- Sports and Politics
Introduction to the August 13, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
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.
- Sports: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
- The Struggle For Canadian Sport
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Bruce Kidd, a former track star, documents the development and transformation of Canadian sport in the twentieth century.
- Trigger Issues: Football
One Small Item, One Giant Impact
Resource Type: Book
- The White Man in That Photo
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith's rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and it certainly deceived me for a long time.
- The World Cup and the Corporatization of Soccer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Huge global sporting contests, their boosters promise, will transform the nature of the host country. The billions South Africa poured into hosting the World Cup were touted by some as a form of development. The result? The month-long euphoria of the contests was followed by the hangover of dealing with an expensive unused or underused stadium infrastructure scattered across that developing country. Host countries pay FIFA for the privilege of hosting the competition, then foot the bill for most of the tournament, while FIFA takes most of the revenues.
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