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Seminar by Russel Field | Three Worlds Collide: GANEFO and a reconsideration of sport and politics in the 1960s

KITLV, room 138 Reuvensplaats 2, Leiden, Netherlands

This seminar examines the Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO), which involved over 3000 athletes from approximately 50 countries who competed in Jakarta in November 1963. Framed in overtly political terms, GANEFO was positioned as a challenge to the Olympic movement under Indonesia’s leadership....