GEOG 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Muscular Christianity, Muscular Development, Pierre De Coubertin
30 Mar 2018
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Sport is a way of expressing national identity. Rugby team banned from playing against other nations. 1995, fall of apartheid, nelson mandela made president. Used the rugby world cup to bring people together. Exchange of cultural and political ideas, discussions go beyond sport. Replacing war with competition, competing on sporting field instead of battlefield. Opportunity for people of different cultures and backgrounds to come together. Contribute to mutual understanding between peoples and nations. Represent an elite whose origins are equal. Wanted to foster the spirit of olympism. Citius, altius, fortius - faster, higher, stronger. Stadium was the pinnacle of sporting environments. Pressure on athletes, challenges to their virtue. Too much emphases on muscular development, not enough on moral. 1936 berlin, hitler"s agenda to showcase nazi movement. Black american man dominated track and field. Wanted to create a perfect image of the country. Olympic rings contains "all" the colors of the nations.
