
Sport: Bread and Games, Power and Money?
Sport: Bread and Games, Power and Money?
Sport is today an organized, worldwide billion-dollar activity. Sport connects all classes, creates winners and losers, heroes and models, and...
Sport is today an organized, worldwide billion-dollar activity. Sport connects all classes, creates winners and losers, heroes and models, and releases enormous collective emotions. Outstanding performances are needed for the legitimization of political systems.
1. What importance has sport in our society?
2. Can Violence in connection with sport be avoided?
3. Are outstanding performances possible without doping? What role do fame and money play?
Guests:Sandra Gasser,
former top athlete; coach (promotion of youth), Switzerland
Professor of philosophy and sports sociology, Institute of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Kentaro Ltd, United Kingdom
Goalkeeper, German national team (1994 to 2006), Germany
CEO, socialutions; project leader fan coordinator UEFA EURO 2008
Moderation:Sonja Hasler,
Swiss Television
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