Tag: Owe Stråhlman

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport studies journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Does responsibility fall on the players or the sporting context? A study of the use of injury-prevention programmes in Swedish elite floorball clubs by Taru Tervo, Andreas Simensen & Staffan Karp (open access).

This study by Per Göran Fahlström, Filip Andersson and Owe Stråhlman analyzes the relationship between physical test results from a young age and future sporting success in the context of cross-country skiing. A cohort consisting of Swedish cross-country skiers who underwent physical tests before admission into ski high schools between 2002 and 2006. The test results of this cohort were analysed to explore their potential to predict future sporting success, using FIS-points, the official ranking and point system established by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation.

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.

The International Review for the Sociology of Sport is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, from standard length research papers to shorter reports and commentary, as well as book and media reviews. 

Ett antal ledande svenska idrottsforskare har tänkt till om idrottsutveckling utifrån satsningarna Handslaget och Idrottslyftet, och deras tankemödor redovisas i Idéer för idrottsutveckling (SISU Idrottsböcker). I sin grundliga och kritiskt analytiska recension hittar Jørn Hansen mycket som är typiskt svenskt, och därtill en besvärande konflikt mellan samhällets mål med idrotten, och idrott som en mål i sig.