Sports mega-events – three sites of contemporary political contestation

Horne, John David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-4389-8204 (2017) Sports mega-events – three sites of contemporary political contestation. Sport in Society, 20 (3). pp. 328-340. ISSN 1743-0437

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2015.1088721

Abstract

This article discusses the contemporary politics of sports mega-events, involving the Olympic Games and Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Men’s Football World Cup Finals as well as other lower ‘order’ sports megas, taking two main forms: the promotional and the protest. There is a politics in, and a politics of, sports mega-events. The former focuses on the internal politics of the organizing bodies, such as the International Olympic Committee and FIFA. This form of politics has been written about elsewhere, and hence, there is no detailed discussion in this article about it. Instead this article offers a brief discussion of the range and number of sports mega-events since 2000, an assessment of the contemporary politics of sports mega-events, a focus on three main sites of political contestation – rights, legacy and labour, and finally, it offers conclusions about research into the politics of sports mega-events.


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