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transcendence and progress, the other on the philosophy of relinquishing one's
identity, of cultural assimilation bordering on a physical ban.
When shall we finally stop believing that sports represented at the Olympic
Games are only the expression of the will to participate and not the result of the
development and technological mastery of a culturally transmissible human activity.
For how can we explain, otherwise, the chronic absence of certain sports
from the Games for certain cultural zones? It is this discrepancy in the appropriation
of sports culture that gives the Olympic Games an image of fiction and social
pessimism. The gods of the Olympic festival are becoming more and more remote
and their records difficult to decipher. This lack of understanding does not just
highlight the delayed development in certain cultural zones, but also their inability
to share the emotions of others, which would make them emotionally a part of the
world of the Games.
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