Exam 13: Sport and Politics Main Themes

Identify several political uses of sport and discuss each in detail.

Box 13.1 describes how government tax policies serve to subsidize big-time college sports. Who benefits from this arrangement and who does not?

Which of the following countries tends to receive more medals per million people in the summer Olympic Games?

The most striking example of success in international sport and the use of sport for the accomplishment of political goals before the breakup of the communist countries was

What are the political consequences of the globalization of sport?

The feminist movement popularized the slogan "The personal is political" to rebut critics who accused women of "playing politics" when they sought equal treatment and opportunity in the various sectors of their lives.

The very ways that the Olympic Games are organized are political. For example,

The persisting conflict between two Mideast countries was tragically highlighted during the Olympic Games when Palestinian terrorists killed eleven Israeli athletes.

Explain the politics of the National Football League athletes' protesting racism in the United States.

Sport as an instrument of national policy is limited to the industrialized nations of the world.