Political Olympics: what is the link between Olympic events and geopolitical issues?

2024-08-06 21:45:03

World wars, Nazism, isolation, economic crises, the geopolitical dimension of sport and the Olympic Games need not be shown anymore. How did history and politics affect the Olympic Games and vice versa? Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, are the Paris 2024 games still political?

Ukrainian Olga Kharlan after her victory in the women’s saber team gold medal match between South Korea and Ukraine during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Grand Palais on August 3, 2024. (Photo d’photo) © Franck Fife / AFP

Our guests:

• Jean-Baptiste Guéganmajor and consultant in the geopolitics of sport, author of Sports war, new geopolitics, published by Tallandier
• Yvan Gastautcurator of the exhibition Olympism, History of the World Palais de la Porte Dorée. Historian, lecturer at the University of Nice Côte d’Azur, researcher at the Migration and Society Research Unit, member of the Scientific Council of the National Sports Museum.

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