Globalisation of sport

• What are the commonwealth games?

  • Since 1930,
  • held every 4 years
  • called the British empire games to begin with
  • Only for countries in the British empire
  • 21 sports approx
• What is globalisation?

  spreading of sport across the world
• How did Britain globalise sport?

  • sport followed the flag - colonies
  • factories
  • codify the sport
  • trade
  • church/christianity
  • boys go out of education to the army
• Globalisation of sport

  A= army

  C= colonies

  A= administration

  C= church

  T= teaching

  I= industrialisation

  C= clubs

  U= universities

  P= patronage
• Colonial association with British sports

  • spread by soldiers/teachers/misionaires
  • commonwealth games
  • transport allowed awareness of colonial cousins
  • British education was copied by colonies
  • encourages physical activity in colonies to stock British armies
  • different colonial identities expressed in chosen activities
  • Christianity
• Rugby and the empire

  Australia = spread by the army

  South africa = English headmaster taught in cape town in 1861 and introduced rugby to them at school
• Cricket and empire

  India = was colonised from 1612 and the east India company (a British trading company) introduced cricket at this time