Lesnykh Lidia
Faculté de Sciences Sociales et Politiques, Institute of Sports science, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Front Sports Act Living. 2020 Nov 12;2:567095. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2020.567095. eCollection 2020.
During the first decade of the Cold War, the communist-sponsored World Festivals of Youth and Students included a program of international sports events that provided elite athletes with a self-standing arena of international competition. They also encouraged mass participation in sports, without social, racial, or political discrimination, thereby implicitly questioning elitism in sport. The present paper argues that through the World Festivals of Youth and Students, the Soviet Union harnessed the universal language of sport as a tool of cultural diplomacy with which to expand develop an international socialist sports youth network. The Festival sporting events represented an alternative model of international sport, run in parallel to the Olympics, whose ideals of peace, friendship, and mutual understanding they shared.
在冷战的头十年里，由共产主义赞助的世界青年与学生节设有国际体育赛事项目，为精英运动员提供了一个独立的国际竞赛舞台。这些赛事还鼓励民众不受社会、种族或政治歧视地广泛参与体育运动，从而含蓄地质疑了体育领域的精英主义。本文认为，通过世界青年与学生节，苏联将体育这一通用语言作为文化外交工具，用以拓展并发展一个国际社会主义体育青年网络。节中的体育赛事代表了一种国际体育的替代模式，与奥运会并行开展，二者都秉持和平、友谊和相互理解的理念。
