The Political Context of 1992 Olympic Games

Abstract

The objective of this article is to present the political context of 1992 Olympic Games. The idea of holding the Games occured in the contet of a recent1y established democracv following 40 years of dictatorship. The socialist Mayor of Barcelona, Narcíss Serra, proposed the olympic nomination for 1992 to the objective regaining a sense of collective hope in the city. The originality of this approach was based, according to the author, on the fact that for the first time iin fifty years an iniciative projected Barcelona toward Spain, in which a wide range of institutions were involved -including ones which were competing electorally (municipality and the government of Catalonia). Isidre Moles assesses other political factors: the negative consequences of the problems of coordination between different organisations, the dangers of terrorist actions and the impact of tensions resulting from the new geo-political map of the world and especialy of Europe.