Read the pages of the book provided in the attachments and answer all of the fol

Read the pages of the book provided in the attachments and answer all of the following study questions with 3-6 sentences.
What were the historical and intellectual roots of the Olympic Games and the World Cup? What were some of the most significant challenges faced by promoters of these two sporting spectacles?
Did the idealism and lofty goals of Olympism result in Olympic policies that promoted social justice? How did women, ethnic minorities, and members of the lower socio-economic classes fare in the early years of the Olympic movement?
Are statements of value and purpose, such as those contained in the philosophy of Olympism, useful or not?
Did amateurism preserve the purity of the Olympics, or was it used for less ethically defensible purposes?
Why did sport emerge as an important political tool? How is it still used for political purposes today?
Is the logic of business compatible with the logic of sport? Why or why not? How has the commercialization of sport both helped and harmed our games?
How does the notion of good stewardship relate to obligations carried by sport entrepreneurs? What kinds of actions would good stewards undertake?
Student Exercise:
1. Can separate ever be equal? Does the segregation of girls and women on separate teams from boys and men perpetuate the idea that they are inferior athletes?
2. Would creating teams without regard to gender-for example, having a single, coeducational basketball team at school-do more harm than good? Explain your reasoning.
3. If gender-specific teams are retained, should outstanding female athletes be allowed to join boys’ and men’s teams? Conversely, should unusually small men be allowed to join a female team?
4. Since popular sports such as American football, basketball, and soccer favor the male physique, should new sports be developed that are more gender neutral or even favor the female anatomy and physiology?