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of sport (www.wada-ama.org/en) 17 . Surrounding issues of anti-doping<br />

is the eminent example of the complex mixture of interactions and<br />

cooperation among governmental organizations, national policy<br />

makers and sport INGOs, from which the domestic policy-processes<br />

on anti-doping policy is constrained and affected by the decisions of<br />

WADA.<br />

Furthermore, such expanding debate and initiatives as the<br />

protection of human rights of athletes and children 18 and the<br />

inclusions of minorities, like those who have physical disabilities or<br />

intellectual disabilities, into sport is occurring both at organizational<br />

or bureaucratic and individual levels, which may influence and<br />

incorporate into domestic and/or international policy-making<br />

procedures. One of the interesting movements in sport can also be<br />

seen from such campaigns as the first conference on women and sport<br />

to adopt The Brighton Declaration by the International Working<br />

Group on Women and Sport (IWGWS) 19 .<br />

3. Summary and Further Discussions<br />

As have been outlined, a significant number of sport international<br />

governmental and non-governmental actors are engaged in various<br />

sorts of activities and sport can be analyzed from the aspects of<br />

‘globalization’ and ‘internationalization’. A large number of<br />

arguments are based upon the account of hyperglobalists, that is, sport<br />

commercialization, transfer/migration of athletes and sport<br />

commodities are argued to be the form of ‘globalized sport’.<br />

Nevertheless, as the previous chapter is conventionally divided into<br />

three forms of sport globalization processes - culture, economic and<br />

infrastructure of sport - the paper paid an attention to the continuing<br />

substantial role and the capacity of state, in so far as the sport<br />

international events and sport INGOs are organized by the geopolitical<br />

divisions and activities of INGOs, sport media and businesses are<br />

controlled by domestic political and administrative systems. It should<br />

be noted, therefore, that the degree of international sports<br />

organizations are still subject to the control by the domestic political,<br />

administrative and legal systems and states play prominent driving<br />

and decisive force: to spread the ideal of Olympic Movement, to<br />

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