Tag: Øyvind Sandbakk

The knowledge base in sports physiology, exercise science and medicine is largely based on research conducted on men. Den kvinnelige idrettsutøveren [The female athlete], edited by Øyvind Sandbakk, Guro Strøm Solli & Hanne Staff (Fagbokforlaget) provides an updated knowledge base and practical recommendations in training, health and performance for the female athlete. Gunn Nyberg’s review, published in both English and Swedish, provides an overall assessment as well as comprehensive presentations of the chapters that our reviewer found particularly interesting.

Utviklingstrappa i langrenn [The Cross-Country Skiing Development Staircase] is a guide for young, promising skiers who want to realize their sporting potential. The book by Sandbakk and colleagues describes an appropriate, long-term development of athletes from childhood to reaching the top level of sports. For our reviewer Daniel Svensson it offers an important part of the answer to the eternal, and for many Swedes infernal question why Norwegian XC skiers are so much better, more skillful, than Swedish skiers, or for that matter, skiers from any other nation.

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: Reflections from CrossFitters on the themes of body and community by Arild Boge, Ove Olsen Sæle & Hilde Stokvold Gundersen (open access).

In this peer review article for Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Max Bergström, Guro Strøm Solli, Øyvind Sandbakk and Stig Arve Sæther present a case study of an Norwegian elite female cross country skier who successfully balanced the dual career of a world-class athlete and medical student. The authors highlight contextual factors facilitating and impeding the dual career development. The participant Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen was a Norwegian student-athlete between 2005 and 2020.

Nu finns läroböcker i idrottsvetenskap på alla skandinaviska majoritetsspråk; det senaste tillskottet är norska antologin Idrettsvitenskap: Perspektiver og praksis, sammanställd av Stig Arve Sæther (Universitetsforlaget). I den medverkar några av de främsta norska idrottsforskarna, samt därtill en svensk och en dansk. En annan dansk idrottsforskare tog på sig att recensera boken för idrottsforum.org, Ulrik Wagner, och från honom blev det både ris och ros.