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Discussion Assignment -
Discussion - Content and Questions
Ruprecht, Brownell, and Llewellyn and Gleaves articles.
1. How were the ideologies of amateurism, Muscular Christianity, and social and moral uplift combined/conflated in Olympism in the first decades of the modern Olympic Movement?
2. Broken-time payments in the Amsterdam Games, and only for footballers, seem like not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of Olympics history. How do Llewellyn and Gleaves show that this debate is, in fact, important to understanding Olympics history, and, more specifically, the central place of the ideology of amateurism?
3. Has Ruprecht convinced you? Was the Modern Olympic Movement created as a "pretty clear religious movement"? Is it still a religious movement? How does Ruprecht write about transcendence?
4. How do both Brownell and Ruprecht ground their arguments concerning Olympism in the historical context of nineteenth-century Europe? What does Brownell write about classicism? What does Ruprecht say about Romanticism and the Romantics' ideas of Greece?
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