Contents: Horse racing as elite tradition and mass entertainment - The French invention - and manipulation - of the Olympic Games - Cycle road racing as industrial metaphor and heritage industry - Roland(-)Garros from the pioneering aviator to the Open tennis championship - Ocean racing from...
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Contents: Horse racing as elite tradition and mass entertainment - The French invention - and manipulation - of the Olympic Games - Cycle road racing as industrial metaphor and heritage industry - Roland(-)Garros from the pioneering aviator to the Open tennis championship - Ocean racing from Alain Gerbault to Florence Arthaud - Looking for liberty - and finding France - in the desert, the mountains and the post-colonial city - Combat sports from the fencing academy to the streets of the banlieue - Rugby from provincial nostalgia to pragmatic cosmopolitanism - Football and the competing claims of locality, ethnicity and fidelity.
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