HYBRIDIZATION OF SPORTS (WITH DIPLOMACY AND POWER POLITICS:
Sports being a recreational activity when coupled with diplomacy or power politics, it is a hybridized version. Many Nation states actively take part in these international events as they believe that it is an opportunity for the country to showcase its potential in the International community for the purpose of relative as well as absolute gains.
The main object of establishing sports institutions in it is to hybridize sports and diplomacy, to work out good results of foreign policy by establishing legitimate relationship with countries.
Also, it is true that sport can not always be a hybrid of diplomacy, violence and politics also exists as for eg. When a nation is represented in the track, he is viewed as a nation and not an individual talent and the sense of winning or losing of countries leads to political consequences. The sensitivity of hosting the India Pakistan Match itself a great challenge to the
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Being an institution, it was able to control and change its racial policies in domestic issues and promote Humanity, equality and destiny which are the key values of the institution. It was the main battleground in the fight against apartheid regime. The researcher would like to use it as an example for explaining the hybridization process of sports, diplomacy and power politics.
One major risk involved in hosting the Commonwealth games is the threat of boycotts. It would tarnish the reputation of the country among the commonwealth and incur huge economic loss to the country darkening the scope of effective foreign policies with the members. Boycotts occur because of conflict of interests and policies with that of the hosting country and when it is a massive boycott, it would lead to many political problems domestically and