One would not commenly associate sports with politics. However, there has been a number of instances where sports were used to make a political statement or to advance a political/cultural viewpoint.
Take the case of when apartheid was the official policy in South Africa, many sportspeople adopted the conscientious approach that they should not appear in competitive sports there. Some feel this was an effective contribution to the eventual demolition of the policy of apartheid..
Most notably was the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin was an illustration, perhaps best recognised in retrospect, where an ideology was developing which
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