Tudo que é olimpico desmancha no ar: os Jogos Pan-Americanos Rio 2007

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Fabrício Luís
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Uberlândia; BR; Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais; Ciências Humanas; UFU
• Palavras-chave em Português: Jogos Pan-Americanos Rio 2007; Crítica da economia política; Hegemonia; Esporte de alta performance; Estranhamento; Jogos Pan-Americanos - Rio de Janeiro, 2007; Esportes - Organização e administração; Jogos olímpicos - Aspectos econômicos; Pan American Games Rio 2007; Critique of political economy; Hegemony; High performance sport; Estrangement; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/12882; https://doi.org/10.14393/ufu.di.2012.55

The objective of this dissertation consists in understand the production of the Pan American Games Rio 2007 in the context of "advanced" capitalism. The discussion is guided by a literature review, as well as documentary research, which includes news from newspapers, magazines, websites and official documents about this mega sports events. It is evident that the Pan American Games Rio 2007, created through extensive state financial resources, were marked by a wasteful production in which the decreasing utilization rate assumes the dominant position, especially in relation to sports equipment. In this field, the International Olympic Committee, the Brazilian Olympic Committee and Rio 2007 Organizing Committee are understood as hegemonic apparatus, as "organisms" of "civil society" responsible for political, moral, cultural and ideological leadership: those institutions work stimulating volunteering , spreading the sport transformed into a commodity, as well as promoting the sports culture of high performance. Finally, some questions are raised for future researches, especially a debate about the estrangement in the sport of high performance, whose suppression is irrevocable condition to effective humanization of the sport.