International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 60, 2025, No. 2

Research articles

Trajectories and figurations: An analysis of sports elite in Lebanon
Axel Maugendre and William Gasparini

Open Access
Socio-structural determinants of physical activity behavior in children and adolescents: The importance of social support
Laura Wolbring, Darko Jekauc, Thomas Hinz, Alexander Burchartz, Simon Kolb, Steffen Christian Ekkehard Schmidt, Alexander Woll, and Hagen Wäsche

Open Access
Sports following and social capital in the United States: Social networks and trust
Adam Gemar

Open Access
Racialisation and the inequitable experiences of racialised minority coaches in men’s professional football club youth academies in England
Steven Bradbury and Dominic Conricode

Open Access
Collective sports success through effective social performances: The case of Olympic wrestling in Iran
Saeed Shamshirian and Vidar Halldorsson

Open Access
Money talks: Analysing the PGA Tour-LIV Golf jurisdictional contest via Western media narratives
Nicholas Jephson, Jonathan Grix, and Hugh Cook

Open Access
Being second among the second: Experiences of Indigenous sports among assimilated Sámi
Eivind Skille, Josef Fahlen, and Kati Lehtonen

A race against time: A critical analysis of elite student-athletes’ accelerated temporality through story completion
Pau Mateu, José Devís-Devís, Miquel Torregrossa, and Renato Francisco Rodrigues Marques

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‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion
Carrie Paechter, Michael Keenan, Lyndsey Stoodley, and Chris Lawton

“Keeping it lowkey”: Exploring the experiences of Korean women fans of women’s volleyball
Hyeeun Kim, Yunjung Kim, and Sun-Yong Kwon