What are the consequences of globalization for sports?
Just as the racial integration of sports in the US has not erased graceh from their internal organization and their external reception, but rather re-situated racial identities and relationships, so too increasing globalization of sports has not produced what many expected: a muting of identities and tensions along national and racial lines. That is, many have expected—and promoted sports globalization with the claims that—world consumer markets, floating spectatorships, and circulating athletes would challenge and undermine the fixity of racial categories and national identities. In many respects, though, we can now appreciate that globalization of sport actually exaggerates, exacerbates, and reinstates national identities and rivalries and racial identities and stereotypes. II. The distinctive and generic features of track and field (gathleticsh) as sport III. Accounting for Kenyan running success: the three determinisms of race, geography, and poverty IV. Towards a better (social-cu
