Introduction

“Avery Brundage liked to say that revolutionaries were not bred on the playing field.”^[1] But what happens when the revolutionaries are the ones who coach the team or govern the sport itself?

It is in this context that this article will try to answer. Indeed, the sport is often associated with a welcoming space, where we can see the neutrality and the universal acceptance of everyone during each game. The problem resides in the autonomy aspect of the sports organization. In a committee mind, autonomy would be a world where sport existed without any communication with politics or with a third party....

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