This paper examines the discourses in power in Danish elite swimming from 2003 to 2013. Gramsci's perspective was used to deconstruct the hegemonic cultural leadership enacted by coaches and administrators in the Danish Swimming Federation and Team Danmark. Transnational coaches were also engaged...

By taking up Scandinavian women's football as a research topic, this special issue (consisting of seven papers) aims to contribute to various areas of social scientific sports research. This takes place through adding bits and pieces to the growing international literature in three areas: (1) ...

Professional team sports clubs in Scandinavia and Europe operate in a complex combination of rational economic logic and emotional irrational behaviour. With a few exceptions most clubs favour winning over profit, thus producing a range of severe financial problems as a direct consequence. This...

Throughout history, football has been the largest sport for men in Norway, as it is today. But now, it is also the largest organized female sport in our country. The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the results from a study about female and male football players and their coaches'...

This special issue focuses on power, dominance, and hegemony in sport, as well as some forms of resistance in the context of hegemonic culture and organizational dominance. The seven articles in this issue deal with: the progress of the hegemonic Swedish sport policy at the beginning of the 20th...

This article seeks to assess the leading force in developing anti-doping policy in sport; the World Anti-Doping Agency. This article will analyse the 2009 World Anti Doping Agency Code, which came into force on 1 January 2009. The 2009 Code represents the latest effort to fight doping in sport, and ...

The aim of the essay is to describe the establishment of football pools in Sweden during the 1920s and 1930s and how this - unexpectedly - contributed to the breakthrough of sports within the framework of Swedish welfare politics. The essay begins with a short historical background. It continues...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has long been the organization responsible for making and harmonizing anti-doping policies in international sport. As the Rodchenkov Act was signed into law in the United States, however, it became possible for the U.S. to target organizers of systematic doping...

The article investigate the impact of National Hockey League (NHL) and its hegemonic cultural impact on the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). This is done in light of the concept of Americanization. Thus, the study traces two different stages in the Americanization process, in relation to the first...

Over the last few years, football and other European team sports have sought to reintroduce measures that can be identified as being in the guise of nationality quotas and are protectionist in nature. In football, UEFA has introduced the 'home-grown player rule'; FIFA initially promoted and then...