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Olympics, media and politics : the first Olympic ideas in Brazilian society during teh late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Fabio de Faria Peres, Victor Andrade de Melo, Jorge Knijnik

Faria Peres, Fabio de | Andrade de Melo, Victor | Knijnik, Jorge

As the 2016 Olympic host, Rio de Janeiro has been given an enormous amount of attention, both by the international media and researchers who looked at the urban spaces of Rio, the struggles over the hegemony of the city and the social meanings the Olympics bring to the host city’s citizens. However, studies over the historical relationship between Rio, sport and media are rare. This paper addresses the historical uses of the term Olympic by Brazilian media during the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. By looking at the main articles in the newspapers of these periods, we examine the extent to which ideologies over sports have changed the way the Olympics were represented in Brazil’s national imaginary.

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