""I just hope that Brazilians look at this and truly understand that your difference is your superpower.""
""There is a competition on who decides on belonging,""
""States provide you with citizenship, but now in sports, states increasingly provide certain fast-track citizenship procedures that normal people don't have access to.""
""In international sporting competitions like the Olympics, athletes will increasingly move to whatever country provides them with the most resources, incentives or chances of competitive success,""
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen won gold in Italy and became the first South American to win a Winter Olympic medal. He competed for Norway and is the son of a Brazilian mother and a Norwegian father. The victory intensified debate over nationality and identity at the Olympics. Five stakeholders shape nationality in sport: individual athletes seeking elite competition; sending states that trained athletes and view transfers as lost investment; receiving states acquiring talent to win medals and bolster nation-building; sports federations aiming for a level playing field; and audiences wanting connection to sporting heroes. Some states offer fast-track citizenship routes that differ from normal procedures, and athletes increasingly move to countries offering greater resources, incentives, or chances of competitive success, creating tensions over who decides belonging and how to balance ambitions, investments, governance, and public attachment.
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