Word: sporting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to believe that a major reason for their putting him on the team was for publicity," said La Vigne, who flew back from the U.S. bobsled training site in Austria last week. Gault's rise in the obscure winter sport already has been a featured item on television...
...situation where a professional athlete can participate in his sport all fall, waive the Olympic trials, push a sled a couple of times, and be selected merely on the coach's discretion alone is clearly not justified," La Vigne said...
Resentment of black advancement in athletics is especially fervent because sport epitomizes the ideal of male perfection. Many white men find it disturbing that a black might best fulfill that ideal (and might collect the accompanying glamour and money). Thus, after Jack Johnson captured the heavyweight championship in 1908, the urgent search began for a "great white hope" to reclaim the crown. Some 60 years later, when no white fighter could manage to win the title in the ring, whites took solace in a cinematic champ, Rocky. The current pro football season cast up another unsettling black breakthrough. Black quarterbacks...
This talent-export system relies on the Communist authorities' monopoly over sport and culture. In the East bloc, the state controls all sports teams, sponsors philharmonic orchestras and dance troupes and even runs discos, cabarets and jazz clubs. By law, all foreign contracts must be funneled through official talent agencies, which act as impresarios cum exporters. Most of the bloc countries have two agencies, one that deals with sports and another that handles all other specialties. The agencies scout the domestic talent, promote their performers abroad, take bids from Western concerns and negotiate contracts...
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