Double Standards: South Africa, British Rugby, and the Moscow Olympics

IF 0.8 4区 教育学 Q1 HISTORY International Journal of the History of Sport Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI:10.1080/09523367.2019.1638770
James Alexander Ivey
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Abstract The year 1980 proved to be a time of diplomatic crisis for the British government and the Commonwealth due to the confluence of two events: a British Lions tour of South Africa and the Moscow Olympics. The Thatcher government debated its Commonwealth counterparts over the perceived hypocrisy of British policy towards South Africa and Moscow. While the British government campaigned internationally for a boycott of the Moscow Games, many African and Caribbean countries believed Britain was taking a harder line against Moscow than in enforcing the Gleneagles Agreement to end all sporting contacts with apartheid South Africa. This inconsistency led to threats of retaliation from African countries and seriously affected the influence Britain had in Africa during the period of Rhodesian independence and the ongoing conflict in Namibia. Controversy erupted surrounding the plans for a British Lions tour, how the invasion of Afghanistan changed the target of the Moscow boycott, and about the discussions between Britain and other countries about sporting ‘double standards’.
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双重标准:南非、英国橄榄球和莫斯科奥运会
1980年被证明是英国政府和英联邦的外交危机时期,因为两件事的汇合:英国狮子会访问南非和莫斯科奥运会。撒切尔政府就英国对南非和莫斯科的虚伪政策与英联邦同僚展开辩论。当英国政府在国际上发起抵制莫斯科奥运会的运动时,许多非洲和加勒比国家认为,英国对莫斯科采取了比执行《格伦伊格尔斯协议》(Gleneagles Agreement)更强硬的立场,该协议终止了与种族隔离的南非的所有体育联系。这种不一致导致非洲国家威胁要进行报复,并严重影响了英国在罗得西亚独立期间和纳米比亚持续冲突期间在非洲的影响力。围绕英国狮队巡演的计划、入侵阿富汗如何改变了莫斯科抵制的目标,以及英国和其他国家关于体育“双重标准”的讨论,引发了争议。
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