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Action sports and the Olympic Games : past, present, future / Belinda Wheaton and Holly Thorpe

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:42:28 +0200

Action sports and the Olympic Games : past, present, future / Belinda Wheaton and Holly Thorpe

Routledge - 2022

Based on a decade of research by two leading action sports scholars, this book maps the relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement, from the inclusion of the first action sports to those featuring for the first ti...

Skateboard, BMX freestyle, and sport climbing communities' responses to their sports' inclusion in the Olympic Games / Gillian Renfree, Dean Cueson, C

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:42:02 +0200

Skateboard, BMX freestyle, and sport climbing communities' responses to their sports' inclusion in the Olympic Games / Gillian Renfree, Dean Cueson, Colin Wood

Renfree, Gillian | Cueson, Dean | Wood, Colin

2021

This study seeks to identify responses to Olympic inclusion from within the skateboarding, BMX freestyle and sport climbing communities, through the lens of "Organizational Identity Theory". The study identifies commonalities from...

International governance of action sports : an organisational legitimacy perspective / Mikhail Batuev, Leigh Robinson

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:41:33 +0200

International governance of action sports : an organisational legitimacy perspective / Mikhail Batuev, Leigh Robinson

Batuev, Mikhail | Robinson, Leigh

2019

Over the last two decades, action sports have become very popular and have joined the Olympic Movement. This chapter illustrates how action sports have organisationally evolved and how the Olympic Movement affected their governanc...

The Olympic Games, agenda 2020 and action sports : the promise, politics and performance of organisational change / Holly Thorpe & Belinda Wheaton

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:19:27 +0200

The Olympic Games, agenda 2020 and action sports : the promise, politics and performance of organisational change / Holly Thorpe & Belinda Wheaton

Thorpe, Holly | Wheaton, Belinda

2019

This article examines the power and politics involved in the process of including three new action sports–surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing–into the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Drawing upon interviews with 20 key individuals...

Action sport media consumption trends across generations : exploring the Olympic audience and the impact of actions sports inclusion / Belinda Wheaton

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:19:02 +0200

Action sport media consumption trends across generations : exploring the Olympic audience and the impact of actions sports inclusion / Belinda Wheaton, Holly Thorpe

Wheaton, Belinda | Thorpe, Holly

2019

The ageing demographics of Olympic viewers is a key concern for the International Olympic Committee. The inclusion of action sports into the Olympic programmes has been a key strategy to try and connect with youth consumers, most ...

Dual governance structures in action sports : institutionalization processes of professional snowboarding revisited / Anna-Maria Strittmatter... [et a

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:15:59 +0200

Dual governance structures in action sports : institutionalization processes of professional snowboarding revisited / Anna-Maria Strittmatter... [et al.]

Strittmatter, Anna-Maria

2019

With the increased number of action sports joining the Olympic Games, such as the inclusion of surfing, skateboarding and climbing into Tokyo 2020, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) poses a substantial challenge to the gov...

How can you enjoy sports if you are under control by others? : self-organized lifestyle sports and youth development / Reidar Säfvenbom, Belinda Wheat

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:06:51 +0200

How can you enjoy sports if you are under control by others? : self-organized lifestyle sports and youth development / Reidar Säfvenbom, Belinda Wheaton, & Jennifer P. Agans

Säfvenbom, Reidar | Wheaton, Belinda | Agans, Jennifer P.

2018

While research shows a positive association between participation in organized sports and youth development, research on alternative and unorganized sport settings is lacking. This paper analyzes developmental processes in a sampl...

Feminist views of action sports / Holly Thorpe

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:55:10 +0200

Feminist views of action sports / Holly Thorpe

Thorpe, Holly

2018

Action sports (i.e., surfing, skateboarding, climbing, snowboarding) emerged in a different context to many traditional organized sports, and thus offered the potential for alternative gender relations. This chapter illustrates th...

Olympism is praxis : the environmental protection - action sports, sustainability, and the Olympic Movement / Eva Elmer

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:46:38 +0200

Olympism is praxis : the environmental protection - action sports, sustainability, and the Olympic Movement / Eva Elmer

Ellmer, Eva

2017

Of all sportspeople, action sports participants are at the forefront of environmental protection due to their cultural core values and interconnectedness with the natural environment. This research follows in the footsteps of scho...

Youth perceptions of the Olympic Games : attitudes towards action sports at the YOG and Olympic Games / Belinda Wheaton

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:46:10 +0200

Youth perceptions of the Olympic Games : attitudes towards action sports at the YOG and Olympic Games / Belinda Wheaton

Wheaton, Belinda | Thorpe, Holly

University of Waikato - 2016

The IOC faces a significant challenge, that is, how to stay relevant to contemporary youth amid changing sport participation and consumption patterns and growing competition from mega-events such as the X Games. This project criti...

"Free sports" : organizational evolution from participatory activities to Olympic sports / Mikhail Batuev

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:45:44 +0200

"Free sports" : organizational evolution from participatory activities to Olympic sports / Mikhail Batuev

Batuev, Mikhail

University of Stirling - 2015

Free sports are the phenomena that have rapidly developed from lifestyle activities to professional competitive sports over the last several decades. Known for distinctive counter-culture values, many popular free sports, such as ...

Maximising action sports for development / Holly Thorpe

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:45:16 +0200

Maximising action sports for development / Holly Thorpe

Thorpe, Holly

2022

This chapter identifies new trends in youth sport participation, particularly the growing popularity of non-competitive, informal, non-institutionalised ‘action sports’ (e.g. skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding, parkour). Drawing...

Dissecting action sports studies : past, present, and beyond / Holly Thorpe, Belinda Wheaton

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:12:05 +0200

Dissecting action sports studies : past, present, and beyond / Holly Thorpe, Belinda Wheaton

Thorpe, Holly | Wheaton, Belinda

2013

This chapter consists of two parts. First, it provides an overview of some of the past and present trends in action sports research, illustrating how different theoretical approaches have informed (and limited) our understanding o...

The cultural politics of lifestyle sports / Belinda Wheaton

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:59:29 +0200

The cultural politics of lifestyle sports / Belinda Wheaton

Wheaton, Belinda

Routledge - 2013

This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports – parkour, surfing, skateboarding, kite-surfing and others – and asks whether they continue to pose a challenge to the dominant meanings and expe...

"Generation X Games", action sports and the Olympic Movement : understanding the cultural politics of incorporation / Holly Thorpe, Belinda Wheaton

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:59:03 +0200

"Generation X Games", action sports and the Olympic Movement : understanding the cultural politics of incorporation / Holly Thorpe, Belinda Wheaton

Thorpe, Holly | Wheaton, Belinda

2011

An important and mounting issue for the contemporary Olympic Movement is how to remain relevant to younger generations. Cognizant of the diminishing numbers of youth viewers, and the growing success of the X Games – the ‘Olympics’...