Athletic performance can be deliberate political action

Evidence

The social game has a deeper double meaning—that it is played not only in a society as its outward bearer but that with its help people actually “play” “society.” — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 379 (#expands, via linked claim)

I had not always been lucky, had not always been blessed; but, illness aside, I had a savage and hidden faculty for managing my desires: for slapping and pounding fate, a rickety raw-faced amateur who should never have stepped into the ring with the hard-fisted likes of me. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 266 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Enduring physical commitment and rhetorical skill must combine for protest to work — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive: The Complete…, 492; Sports and politics can be integrated spheres of Muslim resistance; High-profile Muslim athletes become politically conscious through confronting hate (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• High-profile Muslim athletes become politically conscious through confronting hate #exemplifies (0.75)
• In social games players perform the very structure of society itself #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 379
• Determination can let a person dominate circumstance as a boxer dominates an outmatched novice #exemplifies (0.55) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 266