US Soft Power Takes An Olympic Hit: Drug Cheating and Nobbling Opponents

The Tonya Harding Defence: Nobble Your Opponent

Ever since the Soviet Union imploded, the USA has been able to dominate the Olympics and therefore was able to display itself to the world as the pinnacle of sporting achievement; a sports End of History. Its multi-ethnic team also put forward an image of racial harmony and integration, independent of the realities of the domestic US. The US and Western…