Sports and ‘Minorities’: Negotiating the Olympic Model

Férez, Sylvain; Ruffié, Sébastien; Héas, Stéphane

doi:10.1080/17511321.2017.1341948

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“…And the father of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, himself is a firm opponent of women's participation in the Olympics. The organization insisted that "women's participation in the Olympic Games" was illegal for the reason that preconceived female roles of that period did not match the idea conveyed by the Modern Olympic Games (Ferez et al, 2017). The appearance of female athletes did not conform with the assigned women image of discretion, modesty, and fragility (Vigarello, 2004).…”

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“…Nonetheless, the efforts of female athletes have not received enough attention and respect, both at the media level and the competition system level (Devine, 2021;Nie, 2019). Nevertheless, in any case, those women, through their protest and reclamation, have left behind battle experiences for other vulnerable groups, such as gender or ethnic minorities (Ferez et al, 2017).…”

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Gender identity and Olympic games: The iridescence in Tokyo 2020

Lyu¹,

Wu²

2021

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The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has brought great strides in terms of equality and inclusion. At least 185 publicly out LGBTIQ+ athletes have attended this global mega-event, which is more than triple the number from the 2016 Rio Olympics. This study investigates the sports participation of the LGBTIQ+ group based on qualitative method of literature review and logical analysis. It first examines the literature about the LGBTIQ+ group's sports participation and then sheds light on the evolution of gender characteristics of Olympics and sports from a historical research perspective. Finally, taking Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as an example, this work discusses the state quo and future of the LGBTIQ+ group's Olympic participation. The results indicate that sex discrimination in sports has a long history. As the most important global sporting event, the Olympic Games have gone through different stages from the "male-exclusivity" to the gender binary system. However, true gender equality has not yet been realized. In addition, it points out that the Tokyo Olympics is of positive significance for promoting inclusiveness and equality. The ever-developing inclusiveness and diversity will probably break the gender competition mechanism of the Olympic Games. Sports institutions need to deal well with issues of gender equality and fair competition

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Section: From Female Exclusion Olympics To "Gender Equality"mentioning

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Section: From Female Exclusion Olympics To "Gender Equality"mentioning

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Gender identity and Olympic games: The iridescence in Tokyo 2020

Lyu¹,

Wu²

2021

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“…Depois do novo protocolo, o percentual de participação das mulheres subiu para 40%, mantendo esse percentual nos dois últimos eventos. É natural imaginar que essa maior participação dos homens ocorreria, já que estudos mostram que a prática esportiva na sociedade é mais comum para o sexo masculino(Ferez et al, 2018).A inserção das mulheres nas Olimpíadas se deve em grande parte ao esforço de Alice Milliat 6 , que deu continuidade a muitos projetos de Coubertin. A Escola do Esporte se alinha a essa meta e espera aumentar ainda mais o percentual de participação das mulheres buscando um equilíbrio em comparação à participação dos atletas de sexo masculino.A Tabela 1 mostra a evolução da participação dos atletas nas diferentes modalidades.…”

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Olympic Philosophy: An experience report of the approach to the transteoric model to measure motivation in the practice of physical activity

Britto-Pereira¹,

Engel²,

Turelli-Thumé³

2020

Journal of Human Sport and Exercise - 2020 - Rio 2016 Olympic Games Third Anniversary Special Edition

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The Olympic values proposed by Pierre de Coubertin are not always found in sports activities. This paper aims to identify the stages of behavioral change for physical activity in philosophy students following a syllabus based on the philosophy of Olympism. This study deals with a descriptive field research with quantitative and cross-sectional approach in which the convenience sample consisted of 180 female and male athletes participating in amateur Olympic Games for 2015; 161 for 2017 and 282 athletes for 2019, with participants from nine Brazilian states -Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, Sao Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais and Bahia. The stages of behavior change were analyzed using the Transtheoretical Model presented by Prochaska, DiClemente and collaborators, in the 1980s, in their pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance stages with qualitative 1 Corresponding author. Brazilian Air Force, Brazil.

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Unisex sports: challenging the binary

Martínková

2020

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport

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This paper addresses some problems arising with respect to the male/female binary division that has traditionally been central to most sports. One strategy for dealing with this problem is to remove the binary and allow athletes of different sexes to compete together. Firstly, since there are different ways of 'mixing' athletes together, a distinction between two major kinds will be introduced: 'mixed sports' (sports with an allocated position for a number of males and females in a team, which retains the binary) and 'unisex sports' (sport participation of all athletes together based on merit, with no need to distinguish between sexes). Secondly, I shall offer a strategy for the modification of existing sports and the creation of new sports that would accommodate athletes of different sexes in 'unisex sports'. This means paying attention to how sports are constructed and which abilities/skills they test. For unisex sports, two kinds of logic are suggested: 'balance of abilities/skills logic' proposes that we should seek a balance of what we presently understand as female and male (together with sex-neutral) abilities/skills to be included in the sporting challenge; whereas 'complexity logic' proposes the creation or modification of sports so as to test for a wider spectrum of abilities/skills.

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Sports and ‘Minorities’: Negotiating the Olympic Model

Cited by 6 publications

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Gender identity and Olympic games: The iridescence in Tokyo 2020

Gender identity and Olympic games: The iridescence in Tokyo 2020

Olympic Philosophy: An experience report of the approach to the transteoric model to measure motivation in the practice of physical activity

Unisex sports: challenging the binary

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