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Perhaps one of the biggest lies we are told is, ‘sport should be sport and not political’. But organised sports competitions have pretty much always been political. In Ancient Greece, a truce was declared every four years so athletes from each city-state could travel unmolested to the temple of Zeus at Olympia. It’s no coincidence that the only times the modern Olympics haven’t been held was during both World Wars.
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