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Thinking about the links between sport and ideology is no simple task, as not only is the complexity of the sports phenomenon overwhelming on many levels, but also the theoretical discussions on ideology (of long tradition) are varied and intricate, as the concept itself is often used with different meanings. This paper aims to generate conceptual categories based on analyses and discussions on the relationship between sport and ideology. In this sense, the exposition of this paper is composed of four sections. The first focuses on conceptualizing the term ideology and its historically successive forms of understanding, with some fundamental theoretical analyses to arrive at a state of the term's art. In the second section, we try to point out how these ideas can be thought of within the sport system, taking as a basis the conceptions of authors who have interpreted sports through ideological keys. In the third section, we try to prove a relationship between these theoretical conceptions, focusing on the definitions developed by Gramsci to think of a "Hegemonic Sport System." Finally, we take the analysis of the Olympic Charter under these conceptual elements as a concrete case, intending to create new keys of analysis for the sports phenomenon, especially from Žižek's premises.
