This was noticeable during the big political events which were the Olympic Games in Moscow, the soccer championship in Argentina and, more recently, in France.
It attracts considerable amounts of money; I would even say today it is the most spectacular showcase of the globalized society of commodities.
Sport constitutes a political body, a space of ideological investment in gestures and movements.
Sport institutes a bodily order founded on the management of sexual drives and aggressive impulses; insofar as it seems that sport is a form of social appeasement, social integration, reducing violence, allowing fraternity; this type of discourse to me is a load of muddled illusions and mystifications.
Sport and physical education, which up to this time were considered only in positive terms, were brutally attacked in their very foundations and their social function.