Mind the gap. The role of suppression, purges, and rejection in sports history and sports historiography. An Introduction

these have also been discussed in sports. Most of these traditions have evolved in the latter parts of the nineteenth century, thus they tend to perpetuate and legitimize hierarchical institutions. A closer look at the International Olympic Committee or FIFA seems to emphasize this notion. In our current age of electronic mass communication Jubilees and other dates which suit visualisation have become a centre for memories. 5 While a theory of memory is evolving , a theory of forgetting is yet in its infancy. The oldest 6