Ondina Valla, une « championne du fascisme » aux Jeux olympiques de Berlin (1936) by Suzy Toson

“…At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, at the age of 20, Trebisonda Valla, nicknamed Ondina, became the first Italian woman to win an Olympic gold medal. This personal endeavor quickly became an unwilling hostage of the Fascist dictatorship which declared it to be a victory of Fascism, thus underlining the political stakes of this event. …”
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Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020 by Mateus de Almeida Prado Sampaio, Jose Raimundo Sousa Ribeiro Junior

“…We analyse the performance of each country (delegations) in terms of 1) the overall score obtained; 2) comparison with its previous performance (Rio 2016); 3) relationship between the number of medals and the number of athletes sent; 4) relationship between the number of medals and the total population and 5) relationship between obtaining Olympic points and the respective HDI (Human Development Index).We conclude that access to the greatest material (and immaterial) wealth in dispute, symbolized by the Olympic gold medal, is spatially distributed across the globe in concentrated (Map 1), hermetic (Map 2), competitive (Map 4), unequal (Map 5) and unfair (Map 6) ways.…”
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