Hegemonic sports system

theoretical keys to the association between sports and ideology in current times

Abstract

This paper aims to generate new theoretical approaches based on analyses and discussions on the relationship between sport and ideology. In this sense, the exposition of this paper is composed of three sections. The first focuses on conceptualizing the term ideology and its historically successive forms of understanding, with some fundamental theoretical analyses to arrive at a state of the term’s art. In the second section we try to point out how these ideas can be thought of within the sport system, taking as a basis the conceptions of authors who have interpreted sports through ideological keys. Subsequently, we try to prove a relationship between these theoretical conceptions, focusing on the definitions developed by Gramsci to think of a “Hegemonic Sport System”. Finally, we take the analysis of the rule 50 of the Olympic Charter under these conceptual elements as a concrete case, intending to create new keys of analysis for the sports phenomenon, especially from Žižek’s premises.