Paris 2024: conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East threaten to turn the Olympic Games into a geopolitical battleground

By Jung Woo Lee, Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Policy, The University of Edinburgh

The Summer Olympic Games will return to Paris this July exactly a century after it last took place in France. Paris is the hometown of Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games.

When Coubertin first conceived the revival of this ancient Greek tradition in the late 19th century, he imagined a scene where nations celebrated friendly internationalism by playing sports together. His Olympic idealism provides the foundation for the Olympic…

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