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Abstract
When the Swedish ice hockey team lost to Belarus [Vitryssland] in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics after a ‘sudden death’ goal, the Swedish media surpassed one another in throwing insults at the team, and the players were regarded with contempt as traitors. Of key significance in understanding this animosity towards the team's loss against Belarus are the historical and geopolitical power structures that the match brought into the open, the notions of development and underdevelopment and centrality and peripherality on a European scale. Theoretical considerations regarding the mythological role of journalism and the processes of identity construction will be taken into account to fully appreciate the attractive force and the ideological significance – the geopolitics – of the press coverage on the loss of the Swedish team against Belarus.
Notes
1 CitationO'Donnell, ‘Mapping the Mythical’, 356.
2 CitationReal, ‘Sport and the Spectacle’, 348.
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4 CitationStrinati, An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture, 117.
5 CitationLule, Daily News, Eternal Stories, 3.
6 CitationLule, Daily News, Eternal Stories, 173 ff, 180.
7 CitationLule, Daily News, Eternal Stories, 152 f.
8 CitationLule, Daily News, Eternal Stories, 170.
9 CitationCermak, ‘Seeing Red’.
10 CitationCermak, ‘The Long Shelf Life of the Cold War’.
11 CitationRowe, Sport, Culture and the Media.
12 CitationRowe, Sport, Culture and the Media, 110.
13 Gruneau and Whitson, Hockey Night in Canada, 13.
14 Gruneau and Whitson, Hockey Night in Canada, 247, 249.
15 Gruneau and Whitson, Hockey Night in Canada, 253, 263.
16 CitationBlain, Boyle, and O'Donnell, Sport and National Identity in the European Media.
17 CitationBlain, Boyle, and O'Donnell, Sport and National Identity in the European Media, 192.
18 CitationBlain, Boyle, and O'Donnell, Sport and National Identity in the European Media
19 CitationBlain, Boyle, and O'Donnell, Sport and National Identity in the European Media, 8 ff.
20 O'Donnell, ‘Mapping the Mythical’.
21 Ibid., 353.
22 Ibid., 345.
23 CitationAlabarces, Tomlinson, and Young, ‘Argentina Versus England at the France ’98 World Cup’, 550.
24 CitationAlabarces, Tomlinson, and Young, ‘Argentina Versus England at the France ’98 World Cup’, 554.
25 CitationAlabarces, Tomlinson, and Young, ‘Argentina Versus England at the France ’98 World Cup’
26 CitationAlabarces, Tomlinson, and Young, ‘Argentina Versus England at the France ’98 World Cup’, 555.
27 The Daily Telegraph quoted in Alabarces, Tomlinson, and Young, ‘Argentina Versus England at the France ‘98 World Cup’, 558.
28 CitationWhannel, Media Sport Stars.
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31 CitationVogler, The Writers Journey, 127 ff.
32 CitationVogler, The Writers Journey, 38. See also CitationHoebeke, Deprez, and Raeymaeckers, ‘Heroes in the Sports Pages’.
33 Vogler, The Writers Journey, 221.
34 Aftonbladet, 12 May 2000.
35 The leading Swedish broadsheet Dagens Nyheter, 20 February 2002.
36 CitationKorosteleva, Lawson, and Marsh, Contemporary Belarus.
37 CitationKorosteleva, Lawson, and Marsh, Contemporary Belarus, 17.
38 See also CitationO'Connor and Boyle, ‘Dallas With Balls’.
39 Vogler, The Writers Journey, 38.
40 CitationBrooks, The Melodramatic Imagination, 33.
41 Blain, Boyle, and O'Donnell, Sport and National Identity in the European Media; Alabarces, Tomlinson, and Young, ‘Argentina Versus England at the France ‘98 World Cup’; CitationCrolley and Hand, Football, Europe and the Press.
42 Expressen, 24 February 2002.
43 CitationTheberge, ‘Challenging the Gendered Space of Sport’.
44 Expressen, 21 February 2002.
45 Expressen, 22 February 2002.
46 CitationBairner, Sport, Nationalism, and Globalization, 154 f.
47 Lule, Daily News, Eternal Stories, 83.
48 Bairner, Sport, Nationalism, and Globalization, 142.
49 Bairner, Sport, Nationalism, and Globalization, 154 f.
50 CitationPreed, Recognizing European Modernities, 205.
51 Bairner, Sport, Nationalism, and Globalization, 156 f.