The purpose of this study was to gain insight into how young football players experience combining sports-related upper secondary education with being a player at a high national level. More specifically, this study will look at players' experience of the opportunity to complete a "dual career"...

Using social innovation as a theoretical framework, this article investigates who participates in Norwegian Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) clubs; if the emergence of MMA contributes to increased social inclusion in Norwegian sport; and finally, if and how the emergence of MMA can be interpreted as social ...

In this article the leadership style of a national football coach, in the context of the rationality of professional sport, where victory trumps everything, is being studied. The question discussed is whether the coach used his frequently communicated transformational leadership style as well as a...

In Norway, the central elite sport organization, Olympiatoppen, has the overall responsibility for coordinating and supporting all elite sport efforts. Part of this is the responsibility for the Norwegian participation in the Olympic Games. This study focuses on the 2010 Vancouver project, and...

The idea that sport participation is a necessary part of a healthy lifestyle (the sport-health ideology) is one of the most socially pervasive ideas in modern western societies. The sport-health ideology presupposes that there is a linear correlation between sport and health, and that this...

Volume 1 begins by describing the origin of organized sport in Norway from 1861 to 1893. By the 1890s there were many sports, imported as well as Norwegian in origin such as skiing and shooting. Objectives varied from general well-being to competition. Politics played a part, with the result that...

Organized and voluntary sport and the school subject physical education have historically been tightly interwoven in Norway. In this study, organized and voluntary sport and physical education are considered as two fields as described by Bourdieu, in the search for answering the research question:...

Skateboarding has gained increasing popularity in Norway and Northern Europe. With increasing popularity, the traditions and identities traditionally associated with skateboarding are challenged. In this article, we utilize Guttmann's seven characteristics of modern sport to discuss the ongoing...

Since the early 2000s The Norwegian Confederation of Sports (NIF) has encountered challenges related to organisational culture, accountability, and transparency. As a NIF-commissioned committee ("Åpenhetsutvalget") as a response to these challenges published the report Innsyn, åpenhet og tillit in...

Evidence-based public health is a relatively new concept implying that decisions about interventions in the public health area be based on (a) population needs and values, (b) social and local contexts, (c) available resources, and (d) the best available scientific evidence. In this article...