The Ideals of Global Sport"Sport has the power to change the world," South African president Nelson Mandela told the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo in 2000. Today, we are inundated with similar claimsfrom politicians, diplomats, intellectuals, journalists, athletes, and fansabout the many ways that international sports competitions make the world a better place. Promoters of the Olympic Games and similar global sports events have spent more than a century telling us that these