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Sport and popular movements : towards a philosophy of moving people
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-08)The article discusses sports movement in Nordic sports and examines how the characteristics of these sports within the different dimensions of sports movement are connected. Movement is said to have three human dimensions, ... -
Sport and self-love: reflections on boxing and the construction of selfhood
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article examines whether boxing, despite – or perhaps because – its destructive potential can be an arena for the formation of selfhood. Based on Honneth’s theory of recognition (1995), I suggest that boxing can be ... -
Sport as part of a meaningful life
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)My purpose in this article is to raise the problem of meaning in sport. The problem has two aspects. One is whether sport has any meaning in itself. The other is about how sport can be a part of a meaningful life. While I ... -
Sport club consultants as street-level bureaucrats in sport policy processes: Conceptualising micro-level interaction styles and their macro-level consequences
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The focus of this paper is sport club consultants, an under-researched role that is uniquely situated at the interface of sport policy systems and clubs. Incumbents of this role—the label of which varies between countries—conduct ... -
Sport clubs, policy networks, and local politics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Sports clubs cooperate with other clubs, sports organisations, and public and market actors to organise sports. In this article, we study the way clubs cooperate through a sports club network involving only sports clubs ... -
'Sport for all' in new settings: A study of the Norwegian Confederation of Sports' Sport for All project in Tanzania in the 1980s and Zimbabwe in the 1990[s]
(Doctoral thesis, 2013)This study is an examination of the Norwegian Confederation of Sports’ (NIF) Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) engagement in Tanzania and Zimbabwe from its inception in the early 1980s until 2000. The main research ... -
Sport injuries and illnesses during the first Winter Youth Olympic Games 2012 in Innsbruck, Austria
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-12)Data on the injury and illness risk among young elite athletes are of utmost importance, because injuries and illnesses can counter the beneficial effects of sports participation at a young age, if children or adolescents ... -
Sport management in Norway: Present and future trends: New age of Sport Management Education in Europe (NASME) - a research project under the Erasmus+ Programme
(Research report, 2019)Being the leading institution of higher education for providing sport management education in Norway, the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences strives to make our study programs as relevant and applicable as possible for our ... -
Sport Medicine Diagnostic Coding System (SMDCS) and the Orchard Sports Injury and Illness Classification System (OSIICS): Revised 2020 Consensus Versions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Coding in sports medicine generally uses sports-specific coding systems rather than the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), because of superior applicability to the profile of injury and illness presentations ... -
Sport participation and loneliness in adolescents: the mediating role of perceived social competence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-05-04)Young people perceive loneliness as a distressing emotional experience associated with sadness and boredom. Also, feelings of loneliness may be associated with psychosocial and emotional problems during adolescence. The ... -
Sport policy analysis revisited: the sport policy process as an interlinked chain of legitimating acts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)By providing an analytical framework that draws on a conceptualisation of legitimacy in organisation studies, this paper demonstrates that the sport policy process can be understood as an interlinked chain of legitimating ... -
Sport sponsorship: a company resource: a qualitative case study of the Norwegian sponsors of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo 2011
(Master thesis, 2011)The objective of the study was to investigate in what ways the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo 2011 could function as a resource for major and minor Norwegian sponsors. Sponsors from all the four sponsorship ... -
Sport, health and drugs : a critical re-examination of some key issues and problems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-07)One of the major justifications for the ban on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport has been that relating to the protection of the health of athletes. This paper subjects this argument to critical analysis by ... -
Sport, Performance-enhancing Drugs, and the Art of Self-imposed Constraints
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Should the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PED) be banned in sport? A proper response to this question depends upon ideas of the meaning and value of sport. To a certain extent, sport is associated with ideal values ... -
Sport, race and gender: the experiences of black Norwegian athletes
(Doctoral thesis, 2016)In this study, I explored how racism and marginalization in Norwegian sport are experienced by black Norwegian athletes. To accomplish this, I used the following research questions: 1. How are individual and institutional ... -
Sport, stories and morality: a Rortyan approach to doping ethics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Stories pervade sport. In elite spectator sport, stories play out in packed stadiums while being broadcast simultaneously to immense TV audiences. These stories, which present controversial goals, great comebacks, underdog ... -
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: Culture, ethics, science, policy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The Concussion in Sport Group guidelines have successfully brought the attention of brain injuries to the global medical and sport research communities, and has significantly impacted brain injury-related practices and ... -
Sport-specific capacity to use elastic energy in the patellar and Achilles tendons of elite athletes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Introduction: During running and jumping activities, elastic energy is utilized to enhance muscle mechanical output and efficiency. However, training-induced variations in tendon spring-like properties remain under-investigated. ... -
Sport: a scientific experiment?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Science plays an increasingly important role in sport. Innovative high-tech equipment and research-based exercise regimes are vivid examples. In more subtle forms, scientific ways of thinking impact how sport is understood ... -
The Sporting Exploration of the World: Toward a Fundamental Ontology of the Sporting Human Being
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)My perspective in this paper is to look at sport and other physical activities as a way of exploring and experimenting with the environing world. The human being is basically the homo movens – born to move. Furthermore, ...