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CONTENT
1. Greece: the birth of the Olympic Games.....................................................................3
2. Rome: sport as a show and a social event...............................................................11
3. Middle Ages: tournaments, the Knight ideal, sports as a way to train skillful
warriors..................................................................................................................................18
4. Thomas Arnold, the education reformer who highlighted values of
sports......................................................................................................................................22
5. Pierre de Coubertin, the creator of the modern Olympic Games....................26
6. Modern sport after the Second World War............................................................39
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