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  • Sport is a local, universalized phenomenon , with a language common to the entire world that has constituted its own relational field.
  • Sport is society. The foundations of the sport movement are its autonomy and independence, its capacity of creating sport systems with multiple agents in different territories.
  • Sport is a transversal social, cultural, educational, and economic tool generated by the very society. As such, it shall have the support of public institutions in every country, regardless of the political status.

“Sport geography does not always coincide with political geography”
(Pierre de Coubertin, 1916)

  • Sport is a human right , a free social activity and an institutional duty – this is the triple democratic requirement.
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