Tag: Ask Vest Christiansen

World Athletics (WA) recently announced that it will reinstitute mandatory sex screening of athletes in women’s track and field, with a follow-up in rare cases, to verify their sex. This move was denounced in a feature on idrottsforum.org by Lindsay Parks Pieper, Jaime Schultz and Jörg Krieger. In a comment to their article, Ask Vest Christiansen points out that the new measures from WA are informed by science and ethically justifiable, as well as necessary in order to protect the female category from male advantage in elite sport.

Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of pharmacological, genetic, psychological and other technological enhancements of the human being. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Wearables, wayfinding, and data visualisations for distance running by John Toner, Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Patricia C. Jackman, Luke Jones, Joe Addrison.

I Rasmus Bysted Møllers och Jan Kahr Sørensens antologi Lidenskab og livskvalitet gennem idræt (Aarhus Universitetsforlag) berättar idrottsforskare och utövare hur olika idrotter kan göra en positiv skillnad i människors liv, trots krav på stor insats. Vi bad Anders Östnäs läsa och recensera boken, som utkom redan 2019. Han hittar flera exempel på att sport kan ingjuta lidelse och ökad livskvalitet och i bästa fall öka den sociala motivationen och upplevelser av ”flow” och glädje.

In November 16, 2021, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) released its “Framework on Fairness, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity and Sex Variations.” Often referenced simply as the Framework, the document updated the IOC’s 2015 guidance for transgender and non-binary athletes to compete in international sport. The IOC’s new Framework came in the wake of several high-profile decisions by International Federations (IFs) and rulings by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that specifically focused on the role of testosterone, fairness, and safety for women athletes.

Drugs in Sport, now in its 8th edition and still with David Mottram at the helm, with Neil Chester as co-editor, is a comprehensive and accurate text on the emotive, complex and critical subject of performance enhancement and doping within sport. Ask Vest Christiansen reviewed the 5th edition for us in 2011, and he takes great pleasure in reading a thoroughly update version of this classic handbook, his own preferred reference work on the subject of doping in sports.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. It publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Koshti/Wrestling: A Victory Key for Heroes in Shahnameh by Hamid Reza Safari Jafarlou, Azim Jabareh Naserou & Mohammad Hossein Ghorbani.

Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of pharmacological, genetic, psychological and other technological enhancements of the human being. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Don’t buy a pig in a poke: Considering challenges of and problems with performance analysis technologies in Swedish men’s elite football by Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Robert Svensson, Daniel Svensson, Dan Fransson.

Building on the international research literature and in-depth interviews with men who have experience of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs), this book explores the fascination with muscles, motivations for using drugs to enhance them, assessments of risks, and experience of side effects. The book examines what the altered body does to the men’s identity, self-image and relationships with peers and partners.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. Articles that adopt a multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary or comparative approach are particularly welcome.

Ask Vest Christiansens nya bok Motionsdoping: Styrketræning, identitet og kultur (Aarhus Universitetsforlag) studerar ingående användningen av prestationshöjande droger i fitnessmiljöer. Jesper Andreasson har läst ett viktigt bidrag till forskningen på området som är tankeprovocerande oavsett vem läsaren är och vilken akademisk nivå hen befinner sig på.