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

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World wars, Nazism, segregation, economic crises, the geopolitical dimension of sport and the Olympic Games is no longer in doubt. How do history and politics influence the Olympic Games and vice versa? Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, are the Paris 2024 Games also political?

Ukraine's Olga Kharlan after her victory in the women's sabre team gold medal match between South Korea and Ukraine at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Grand Palais on August 3, 2024. (Illustration image)

Our guests :

  • Jean-Baptiste Gueganspecialist and consultant in sports geopolitics, author of The war of sport, a new geopolitics, published by Tallandier
  • Yvan Gastautcurator of the exhibition Olympism, a History of the World at the 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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