Tag: Jörg Krieger

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Daciada and Winter Sports in Romania, 1976–1989 by Simona Petracovschi, Martin Domokos & Eugen Bota (open access).

Somewhat provocatively, Jörg Krieger makes the case for the complete removal of national symbolism, and in particular the flags, at the Olympic Games, in his new book National Symbols at the Olympic Games: An Olympics Without Flags? (Routledge). Our reviewer, historian John Berg, finds Krieger’s arguments reasonable and well developed and the book academically solid; however, in light of the seemingly overwhelming obstacles to such a development, he sees the book as an input to a debate rather than as a traditional scientific publication.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Sport Hero Concept in Czechoslovakia: The Phenomenon of Emil Zátopek, 1948–1956 by Václav Pechman (open access).

It has taken over a century to get to an equal number of female and male athletes at a Summer Olympic Games. While there is still much to do to achieve full gender parity, Lindsay Parks Pieper’s and Jörg Krieger’s slim volume Women in the Olympics (Common Ground) charts women’s struggles and successes in trying to compete in the Olympics. Katie Taylor is our reviewer, and she is impressed with the authors’ historic-sociological approach that makes the book extremely useful for students and lecturers alike.

Sports Coaching Review is an international peer-reviewed medium for the publication of articles related to sports coaching. It aspires to be a major focal point for the publication of sports coaching research throughout the world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “Joseph Maigrot (1900-1983): a track and field coach who pioneered a French style of coaching” by Serge Vaucelle.

World Athletics (WA) recently announced that it will reinstitute mandatory sex testing in women’s track and field and require competitors to submit to a cheek swab or dry blood spot analysis for genetic testing to verify their sex. In this article, Lindsay Parks Pieper, Jaime Schultz and Jörg Krieger analyse this move by WA in light of almost one hundred years of highly questionable and ultimately failed attempts of different kinds to determine athletes’ sex. Using the SRY gene as determinator is doomed to fail for exactly the same reason, it being scientifically and ethically unsound.

After 131 years, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has finally elected its first woman president: 41-year-old Kirsty Coventry, a five-time Olympic swimmer who represented Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2016. In what they call a “critical celebration,” Jörg Krieger, Jaime Schultz and Lindsay Parks Pieper trace earlier milestones in women’s Olympic leadership to historically contextualize Coventry’s appointment. While they show how far the movement has come, they also highlight how far there is still to go.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Bumpy Road to World Athletics: Foundation, People, Policies by Lina von Petersdorff & Jörg Krieger (open access).

In the edited collection Athletics in the Nordic Countries: History and Development, edited by Jörg Krieger, scholars from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden explore historical developments and current phenomena in the sport of athletics. The authors provide insight into sport officials, events, and athletes from the Nordic countries that have shaped the international athletics scene. In his review, Alan Bairner presents the basic features of a book that obliges the reader to think about what this most accessible of sports is and what it could be, for good or ill.

Sport in History encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section, an annual compendium of sports-related accessions to British archives and a 'Sport in Public History' section. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Women coaches, professionalisation, and national governing body mergers in England, 1989–2000 by Rafaelle Nicholson (open access).