HI299 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Joe Dimaggio, Pat Summitt, Barry Mcguigan
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Icons serve as a powerful source of collective identity and national pride. Exceptional individuals, many but not all human, who become iconic figures. Icons may epitomize something outstanding through sporting prominence and successes. Embodied practices, often blaze a trail for others to follow. One of four colleges coaches to achieve at least 1,000 wins: she achieved 1,098. A sports hero is an idol and an icon who belongs to a specific time: (eduardo archetti) Sports icon: any person admired for given qualities or achievements and regarded as ideal or model. Icons are often in the vanguard of sporting revolution or at the forefront of profound societal change. Swiss athlete roger federer, pioneered the transformation of world tennis: embodied the qualities of fair play, grace under pressure and respect. Irish boxer barry mcguigan (the clones cyclon: irish sports culture now centered around ideas of masculinity. Prominence of sporting icons leads to mass scrutiny: ex.
