Action sports and the Olympic Games : : past, present, future / / Belinda Wheaton and Holly Thorpe.

"Based on a decade of research by two leading action sports scholars, this book maps the relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement, from the inclusion of the first action sports to those featuring for the first time in the Tokyo Olympic Games and beyond. In an effort to remain...

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Superior document:Routledge critical studies in sport
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Place / Publishing House:Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2022.
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Routledge critical studies in sport.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 317 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing action sports and the Olympic Games
  • Mapping action sports and the Olympic Games : theoretical and conceptual considerations
  • Researching the action sports-Olympic Games assemblage : a longitudinal and multi-method approach
  • The history of action sports and the Olympics Games
  • Agenda 2020 and the Tokyo announcement : initial responses and debates in action sport cultures
  • Action sports and the politics of governance
  • The action sports industry : a shifting landscape
  • Skateboarding, the Olympics and flexible opposition : the sportisation of the antisport
  • Surfing's paradoxical journey from alternative lifestyle to Olympic sport
  • Developing pathways to Tokyo : national differences in the professionalisation of self-governing action sports
  • Action sports and the opportunities and challenges for gender equity
  • Conclusion.