Events such as World War II can affect the development of sports. Using examples from World War II and other World events, Discuss and analyse these events to show how the sport has grown, stunted or been affected by these world events

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Task 3 – Events such as World War II can affect the development of sports. Using examples from World War II and other World events, Discuss and analyse these events to show how the sport has grown, stunted or been affected by these world events.

The Development of sports is greatly affected by world events and the politics of governments. In an ideal world sport should not be affected by any outside influences. However the past has shown that sport is often the loser when up against influences such as world wars and terrorism.

        In 1936 the Berlin games were manipulated by the Nazi government to promote the countries political ideals. Many Germans were imprisoned so they couldn’t disrupt the games. Only Germans of Hitler’s so call Aryan race were allowed to compete for Germany. This had a huge affect on the game as other Germans were banned from taking part.

        The Olympics and all other sporting events during World War2 were either cancelled or postponed.

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        The next Olympics took place at Melbourne in 1956 and saw Spain and Holland withdraw in protest against the Russian invasion of Hungry. This affected the games as two majors teams had pulled their athletes out of the events.

At the Tokyo games in 1964, the invitation to South Africa was with withdrawn because of that countries policy of apartheid. This hugely affected the outcome of the games as the South Africans were unfairly treated and were not able to compete.

The invitation was yet again withheld from South Africa at the Mexico City Games in 1968 it was because ...

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