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Red Games

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Between the two World Wars, a vibrant European socialist sports movement emerged that criticised the OlympicGamesforbeingcommercial, elitist, nationalistic, and politically right-wing. When fascism started to use sport in the interests of the state, workers' olympiads were organised as an alternative and a protest. One in "Red Vienna" in 1931 attracted over 70 000 athletes and 250,000 spectators. Using recorded testimonyfrom people involved, Mark Whitakertells the story of the other Olympic movement. Producer Mark Whitaker

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