2020
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-48295-4_18
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The Economic Determinants of the Olympic Performance in Communist and Post-Communist Countries

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“…At that time, the amateurism advocated at the origin of modern Olympism by Baron Pierre de Coubertin was represented by the high-level system governing elite sport of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during the presidency of Avery Brundage through Rule 26 of the Olympic Charter. This situation was taken advantage of by the states of the Eastern bloc, also known as the Communist bloc, which developed a state model of professionalism through public investment-reaching up to 1% of the annual GDP-that evaded the provisions of the aforementioned Rule 26 with the aim of enhancing the so-called soft power through sport (Llewellyn and Gleaves 2016;Andreff 2021).…”
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“…At that time, the amateurism advocated at the origin of modern Olympism by Baron Pierre de Coubertin was represented by the high-level system governing elite sport of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during the presidency of Avery Brundage through Rule 26 of the Olympic Charter. This situation was taken advantage of by the states of the Eastern bloc, also known as the Communist bloc, which developed a state model of professionalism through public investment-reaching up to 1% of the annual GDP-that evaded the provisions of the aforementioned Rule 26 with the aim of enhancing the so-called soft power through sport (Llewellyn and Gleaves 2016;Andreff 2021).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…This was not the first attempt to use sport for political purposes, with precedents in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, but it was the first attempt at long-term planning-five-year sports plans-that allowed the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria to lead the Olympic medals table until Seoul 1988, the last Olympic Games before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 (Andreff 2021).…”
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