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In this feature article, Johan Högman, Christian Augustsson & Pernilla Hedström summarize their article from European Journal for Sport and Society in which they present the results from a study of less than successful intervention programs with the aim of promoting children’s development of a physically active lifestyle. Success or failure may well, conclude the authors, hinge on programs applying a multi-leveled ecological model.

In 2014–15, Gerd von der Lippe studied the role of women’s football in the West Bank in Palestine. She interviewed 17 players from the Ramallah team, highlighting and discussing how female footballers in the Occupied West Bank experience their sport as a way of normalising crisis during occupation and how the Israeli occupation is affecting their sense of honour when playing for Palestine.

In this summary of an article published in the Brazilian journal Conexões in September 2020, Dihuen Cibeyra and Jorge Ricardo Saraví presents a study of surfing, and specifically the teaching of surfing. Based on a qualitative and interpretive methodology, the authors concludes that the practice of surfing requires a systemic view in order to fully understand the phenomenon from a research as well as an educational perspective.

In this summary of an article published in Soccer & Society in April 2020, John Dewhirst and Wray Vamplew presents a template for the study of sports clubs’ transformation to commercial organizations. The model was developed in a study of how Bradford FC and Queen’s Park FC adapted to the emerging commercialization of society in the wake of the industrial revolution and the rapid growth of capitalism.

Theoretically, this article by Annika Bodemar, Anna-Maria Strittmatter and Josef Fahlén builds on research that has identified critical issues from both the Organising Committee’s and the other stakeholders’ perspectives leading to the downfall of a target event. According to identified critical issues, this particular event should have been doomed to fail based on its lack of vision, mission, and goals; insufficient due diligence; problems concerning financial commitments; and more.

The article "Women, War and Sport: The Battle of the 2019 Solheim Cup” by Ali Bowes, Alan Bairner, Stuart Whigham & Niamh Kitching was published online in the Journal of War and Culture Studies October 21, 2020. The study considers the way in which the competitors in the 2019 Solheim Cup were represented in the British print media. Results highlights that national identity is a key descriptor of the female competitors, legitimising their position in the battlefield of international sport.

The article "Between rounds: the aesthetics and ethics of sixty seconds” by Dr. Joseph D. Lewandowski was published online in the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, July 9, 2020. Drawing on work in the philosophy and sociology of sport, Lewandowski explores the complexities and contradictions that inform the minutes between rounds of a professional boxing match in an attempt to make explicit the aesthetics and ethics of pugilistic competition.

The school is the only arena where the vast majority of children and youth can be reached, and school programs have had better results for improving inhibitory control than any other approach. The aim of this study by Ingegerd Ericsson was to present and discuss intervention effects of Physical Activity (PA) carried out in the classroom compared to motor skills and Physical Education (PE) interventions.