... governments are now funding the Olympic preparations of their national associations, and national academies of sport are becoming the norm rather than the exception. The previous assertions of many that politics and sport should have no connection seem to have a very hollow ring in the current climate. Government support is ever increasing and the uses of the games are used more ... the games had been cancelled due to the two World Wars, which the IOC played no part in, there was the development of what became known as the "East German machine". This grew out of the use of sport by the ...

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