International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 56, 2021, No. 8

Research Articles

Walking the line? An investigation into elite athletes’ sport-related use of painkillers and their willingness to use analgesics to train or compete when injured
Marie Overbye

The toxic doxa of “clean sport” and IOC’s and WADA’s quest for credibility
Fabien Ohl, Lucie Schoch, and Bertrand Fincoeur

Stabbed, shot, left to die: Christy Martin and gender-based violence in boxing
Cathy van Ingen

Open Access
Gender-collaborative training in elite university sport: Challenging gender essentialism through integrated training in gender-segregated sports
MF Ogilvie and Mark McCormack

Open Access
Mobilising gender equality: A discourse analysis of bids to host the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™
Bridgette M Desjardins

And this is what we sing – what do we sing? Exploring the football fan songs of the Northern Irish ‘Green and White Army’
John Bell and Paul Bell

When the gift is halfhearted: A socio-cultural study of ambivalence in a charity sport event
Ayelet Oreg, Itay Greenspan, and Ida E. Berger

Open Access
Superwomen? Young sporting women, temporality and learning not to be perfect Noora J Ronkainen, Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Kenneth Aggerholm, and Tatiana V Ryba

If things go South: The renewed policy of sport mega events allocation and its implications for future research
Billy Graeff and Jorge Knijnik

Book Reviews

The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport: Causes, Consequences, Solutions by Paul Dimeo and Verner Møller
Annie Blazer

Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs. Tracing a Typology of Steroid Use by Ask Vest Christiansen
Fabien Ohl