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Brasilia, October 1979. Brazil’s Parliament House. The National Sports Council (CND)1 convenes several political and sports authorities in the Brazilian Federal Capital to celebrate the achievements of top-level national athletes. The aim of the gala night in particular was to deliver the medals and awards to the judo fighters, who had performed spectacularly at that year’s South American Championship in Uruguay. The CND managers wanted to demonstrate to the government authorities that the public money used to pay the athletes’ training and travelling expenses had been well spent.
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© 2015 Jorge Knijnik and Marco Antônio de Carvalho Ferretti
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Knijnik, J., de Carvalho Ferretti, M.A. (2015). Ambivalent Lives, Fighting Bodies: Women and Combat Sports in Brazil. In: Channon, A., Matthews, C.R. (eds) Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports. Global Culture and Sport Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137439369_16
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