The Promotion of Human Rights at the Olympic Games: The "Samaranch" Era (Moscow 1980 - Sydney 2000)

Abstract: The Olympic Games represent an homage paid to the supreme sporting event, which should remain a magical contest, full of passion and humanism. This competition needs to be protected all over the world, but now more than ever because of the usual excesses of violence, rivalry and nationalism, more or less explicit, or a series of complex situations, for example, Iraq, Afghanistan, countries in conflict in Africa, continued warfare due to poverty or excess of oil in Latin America and the Middle East, eternal Arab-Israeli conflict, migration, health threats etc. Paradoxically, the Olympic Games must be enjoyed and regretted for gaining so much importance. On a sports level they become increasingly significant despite the existence of world championships for each sports discipline, and from the social perspective the Olympic Games are the perfect scene for exposing at the highest level the demands, the protests, and the fight for protecting the fundamental human rights. This article an

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• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Annals of the University of Bucharest / Political science series ; 21 (2019) 1-2 ; 43-59

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Sport

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wer): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (wann): 2019
• Urheber: Sofronea, Octavian

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-73930-0
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.