Dr.Sc.Hist., Professor S.N. Pogodin¹
PhD, Associate Professor O.E. Piskun¹
PhD, Associate Professor V.I. Samorukov^1
1Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg

The study analyzes the history of elite sports being used for the vested political interests, with a special emphasis on the Olympic movement history and the fatal effects of the dirty politicking on the global sports. The 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm were taken for the case study of the political pressures on the Russian national Olympic team.
The study overviews many violations of Olympic principles in the 1912 Olympics in wrestling, rowing, equestrian, tennis and fencing sport disciplines; with a special consideration of the Finnish team performance which was subject to contradictions and discussions of the Russian and Finnish sport authorities, with no detriment to the acknowledgement of the Finnish team accomplishments by the Russian mass media at that time. The 1912 Olympics in Stockholm helped the Russian society comprehensively analyze the progress of national sports.
The study data and analyses give the means to find that the political pressure on the global sport movement is nothing new as it is deep in its history, with the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm providing a typical case in point with the Russian team being subject to heavy political blackmailing campaign at that time.

Keywords: Olympic Games, Olympic movement, 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Russia, Great Princedom of Finland, athletes, Olympic national team.

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