Ficciones en torno al deporte en tiempos de crisis Stories about the sport in time crisis

The starting point of this paper is the contrast between the successes of Spanish athletes and the political, economic, and institutional crisis afflicting the country. In this context, many people have publicly looked to athletes to use them as models to be followed in order to get out of the present situation. Given the subject, I approach it playing with reality and fiction. To do this, I refer to just a few movies related to sport from different eras whose plot can be related to the role of sport in times of crisis. Given the purpose of this writing, the readers are left to draw their own conclusions. Regardless, I think that the stories presented in this paper might help stimulate reflection on the culture that (in times of crisis) is recreated by the more or less fictional narratives of sport feats.