The Sport of Solutions

For ten years, David Blough traveled to the four corners of the sporting world. Not the one we watch on our screens and which unleashes the passions of the crowds, but a sport that positively influences the path of many people. As a social entrepreneur, the author takes us on a discovery of initiatives that connect divided communities in Israel, encourage gender equality in Brazil or help children return to school in Afghanistan. This world tour highlights another sport, a real laboratory of solidarity which gives access to knowledge, social skills and better physical and mental health. The nine reports that punctuate the book tell the best that sport can offer and how it responds to individual and collective, cultural and political issues. For while pioneering associations and companies obviously cannot be held solely responsible for solving structural social problems, they harbor a pool of solutions and innovations that prefigure the sport of tomorrow. The Sport of Solutions is the embodied and captivating story of a “journey into the land of possibilities”, and invites us to change the rules of the game in the field of social utility. Preface by Sarah Ourahmoune, president of the BoxerInside association, world champion and vice-Olympic boxing championPostface by Georges Vigarello, historian, philosopher, director of studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales A world tour of initiatives that increase the social potential of sport: David Blough goes to meet those whose sport changes their lives.