This chapter explores the interconnection between sports event hosting and political symbolism in the UK during a decade of constitutional and political turmoil. It examines the dualistic symbolism of international sporting events such as the Olympics and Commonwealth Games, and the use of sport as a means for political positioning for the UK and its constituent “home nations” of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Particular focus is given to the UK’s attempted use of sporting event hosting for “economic boosterism” and the projection of “soft power,” while questioning the effectiveness of this approach in the face of the UK’s constitutional turmoil and declining geopolitical influence in the post-Brexit time period.