Blanche Nash: The Role Of Gender Stereotypes In The Olympic Games

reason for their exclusion was that Blanche Nash didn’t performed well in previous Olympic Games. This conduct of the South African selectors was also influenced by apartheid government policies by then as women were not treated equally with men hence today the South African Constitution guarantees equality before the law and non-discrimination directly or indirectly against anyone on one or more grounds including race, gender, sex, pregnancy, ethnic or social origin, age and disability.

The impact of politics in the Olympic Games started in 1916 when the games were awarded to Berlin, the Capital City of Germany and the games were unable to take place because of the war within the nations in Europe. The IOC tried to intervene to rescue the
The National Socialist regime under the leader of Adolf Hitler used the Olympic Games by manipulate the Olympic game’s goals in a form of showing propaganda of Nazi’s superiority in Germany. The Berlin Olympics Games are still remembered by the good performance of Jesse Owens an African-American who won four gold medals in 100 and 200 meters in the long jump as well as in 4 x 100 meters relay. Owen’s German rival, Luz Long has publicly befriended himself in of the of the Nazi’s and was later killed during the World War II but Berlin Olympic Games hero, Jesse kept in touch with the family of Luz Long for after the World War II. Adolf Hitler was also interfering the in the Olympic Games’ schedule because on the first day competition he invited all the winners to his lodge, he was requested by the Olympic Committee to stop that arrangement because that was going to make the programme of the day to run behind the planned scheduled and the Germans were very punctual. The South African team didn’t perform well except the getting a silver medal in boxing and women were also not included in a team that represented the country. One of the SA boxing team members, Robey Leibrandt joined the Germany army at the end of the games as a paratrooper. Robey returned to South African during the World War II to
The agreement was reached that Great Britain will not provide athletes with foods and participants should provide for themselves. The new facilities were also not build; the Wembley stadium was not destroyed during the war and was able to provide all the facilities needed for the games. The males and females athletes were accommodated in separate places such as army camp in Uxbridge and Southlands College in dormitories, respectively so. The Helsinki Olympic Games in 1952 were marked as the beginning of the Cold War and the return of Russia since they last participated in 1912. The German and Japan were also invited to participate in the Olympic Games which was after the end of their