1. The Portrayal of Sports stars and National Identity. Represe
One clear example arose when during the 1990 World Cup in Italy the two met in the semi-finals, The Sun had a field day, running with headlines as follows, "we beat them in "45, we beat them in "66 now the battle of "90." ... The press painted the picture of Damon Hill being the honest public school boy who was being challenged unfairly by the German who had won the same event the year before in controversial circumstances. ... At the final stage of the singles three out of the remaining four finalists left in the men's and women's competition were German, these being Michael Stich ...
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