A STUDY OF THE POLITICAL BACKGROUNDS AND THE PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES

Sport, especially the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement, is emerging as an exceptionally widespread and forceful social phenomenon in contemporary world. That's to say, the problems of the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are social, economic, and even political. It is clear that the Olympic Games, as one of the most powerful expression of sport had been and has been used by every nation to some degree as an instrument of national prestige, nationalism, national integration, political propaganda, economic growth, commercialism, and so on. The political problems of the modern Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement have often been perceived as being derived from Pierre de Fredi Baron de Coubertin in its history. In this monograph, the author pointed out that the modern Olympic Games had been engaged and has been engaged in many international political problems since its started in the 1896 Athens Games. These points were described in the economic and political backgrounds, and also, were discussed these problems in the international political structure.3KJ00004196253Originaldepartmental bulletin pape