Tag: Daniel Svensson

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life.

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Halvor Kleppen’s De kalde lekene: Norge, skisporten og de olympiske vinterlekene [The Cold Games: Norway, Skiing and the Olympic Winter Games] (Akilles) was published five years ago, bur our reviewer Daniel Svensson agues that this important history of winter sports, and beautifully illustrated book as well, deserves a long life and, actually, a translation into English.

We put Daniel Svensson’s dissertation from 2017, Scientizing performance in endurance sports: The emergence of ‘rational training’ in cross-country skiing, 1930–1980 (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) into the hands of Erkki Vettenniemi, who’s insightful reading resulted in an engaging and highly informative review.

This thesis sets out to analyze the role that science has played in training during the 20th century. It is a history about the rationalization of training, but also about larger issues regarding the role of personal, experiential knowledge and scientific knowledge.

Öxabäck IF dominerade damfotbollen under 1970- och -80-talen, med halvdussinet SM-segrar och lika många cupsegrar. Daniel Svenssons och Florence Oppenheims Öxabäckshistorik Etta på bollen: Historien om Öxabäcks damlag uppskattas högeligen av Jonny Hjelm, som ju själv forskat en del om damfotboll.