International Journal of the History of Sport

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of the History of Sport is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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Channelling Soft Power: The Qatar 2022 World Cup, Migrant Workers, and International Image14
Olympic Winter Games in Non-Western Cities: State, Sport and Cultural Diplomacy in Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 202210
Survival of Folk Sports–Related Cultural Heritage in China9
Sizing up Sport History Journals: Metrics, Sport Humanities, and History9
Olympic Charter Evolution Shaped by Urban Strategies and Stakeholder’s Governance: From Pierre de Coubertin to the Olympic Agenda 20209
Women and Excellence in Mountaineering from the Nineteenth Century to the Present8
Who May Represent the Country? Football, Citizenship, Migration, and National Identity at the FIFA World Cup7
The Diplomatic Turn: The New Relationship between Sport and Politics7
‘A Strong, Sustainable Legacy:’ The Environment and Japan’s Winter Olympics6
Sports Trans-Cultural Communication between China and Russia under the Belt and Road Initiative6
Promoting the Right to Education and Dual Careers of Athletes: Former Korean Dropout College Student-Athletes as Social Agents to Promote Critical Conflict Resolution6
Winter Olympic Referendums: Reasons for Opposition to the Games6
Irregularities in Football. ‘Cooperativa’: A History of Match-Fixing in Romanian Football6
Manless Rope Team: A Socio-Technical History of a Social Innovation5
The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Inter-Asian Connections in South Korea5
The Inheritance and Dissemination of Wushu Culture in the Global Era5
The Numbers Game: The NBA v. Motorola, Real-Time Statistics, and the Rise of Online Fantasy Sport5
The Emergence of the Swedish Horse-Riding School from the Mid-Twentieth Century5
Forging a Link between Competitive Gaming, Sport and the Olympics: History and New Developments5
Social and Associative Sports Tourism in France: The Glénans and the National Union of Outdoor Sports Centres (UCPA)4
‘Our Sport’: The Fight for Control of Women’s International Athletics4
Tracing the Historical Contours of Black Muscular Christianity and American Sport4
The Early Globalization Process of Taekwondo, from the 1950s to 19714
Modernization of Athletics in Oman: Between Global Pressures and Local Dynamics3
Symbolic Power and Dual Careers of Athletes: Successful Career Transition Experiences of Korean College Athletes Who Quit Sport3
Sport, Ideology and Nation-Building in the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China3
A New Starting Point: The Factors That Made Taiwanese Professional Baseball Players Migrate to Mainland China After the 1997 Match-Fixing Scandal3
Elements of the Habitus of Chinese Football Hooli-Fans and Countermeasures to Address Inappropriate Behaviour3
Racialized Marketing in the Athletic Apparel Industry: The Convergence of Sneaker Promotion and Black Culture in the United States3
In the Shoes of Dave Blase: Cycling, Cinema, and Social Class in Peter Yates’ Breaking Away3
Sport History and Biopics: Genre, Truth, and Ethics3
Transcending Taekwondo Competition to Sustain Inter-Korean Sports Diplomacy2
The 1928 Olympic Winter Games in St Moritz: Tourism, Diplomacy and Domestic Politics2
Sport Diplomacy and Survival: Republic of China Table Tennis Coaches in Latin America during the Cold War2
Sport Policy in China (Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy)2
Football Clubs, Social Changes, and Political Disputes in Interwar Greece2
Expert Analysis: The Reciprocal Relationship between Sports Gambling and Fantasy Football on Television2
Pakistan’s Participation at the Summer Olympic Games, 1948 to 2016: A Social Development Theory Approach2
Olympic Infighting: An Exploration of Power Games between Leaders of International Sport Federations and the International Olympic Committee2
Historicizing Machoism in Swedish Ice Hockey2
Netball in Zimbabwe: Towards a Social History2
The Introduction of Western Sports during the Opening of Macau and Its Developmental Implications2
Bread and Circuses, Olive Oil and Money: Commercialised Sport in Ancient Greece and Rome2
Anxiety in the Sports Pages: The ‘Crises’ Narratives of 1950s Argentine Fútbol2
Growing in Tandem with Media: Fantasy Sport, Media Use, and the Formation of an Industry Giant2
Summer Meets Winter: African Nations Participating at the Winter Olympics, 1960–20182
Because It Is There? Mount Everest, Masculinity, and the Body of George Mallory2
Lost in the Vault?: Demonstration Sports at the Winter Olympics and How Digital Media Can Bring Them ‘Back to the Future’2
The Financial Impact of World Series Cricket on Australia’s State Cricket Associations, 1974–19822
Northeast Asian Modern Martial Arts: An Embodied Synthesis of Virtue Ethics and Deontology2
‘The world will be watching and so will NSA!’: A History of Technology and Security at the Olympic Games2
The Environmental Reimagining of Olympic Sarajevo2
Historical Transformations of the Palestinian Civil Society: The Case of Sports Clubs in the West Bank2
The Institutional Position of Athletes in the Governance Networks of the Olympic Movement in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom2
Olympic Winter Games, ‘Cold Sports’, and Inclusive Values2
From Stroke to Stoke: The Multiple Sporting Legacies of the Southern California Home Swimming Pool1
Stakeholder Engagement in Sport Policy Decision Making in Taiwan during the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Undoing Maradona: Subalterns of Sport for Development1
The Sidesaddle: The Unlikely Emblem of Equestrian Empowerment1
Evolution of Professional Football Management in the People’s Republic of China from 1992 to 20161
Olympic Philately: Reading the 1896 Athens Olympics from Postage Stamps1
The Attempted Grobalization of Parkour by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique1
The Olympic Movement and Safeguarding Athletes: Exploring South Korea’s Journey to Protect Athletes1
The Legacy of Sports Nationalism in South Korean Sport1
Netball Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago: Content Analysis of Press Coverage Related to the 1979 World Netball Tournament1
Educating the Elite in an Egalitarian Context: The Emergence of Sport Schools for Elite Talents in Sweden in the 1970s1
Pseudo-Olympics in the Grand Duchy of Posen: The Forgotten Sports Heritage of Greater Poland1
A Critical Assessment of the Contribution of He Zhenliang to the Modern Olympic History of China1
Manufacturing the Image of a Country through Sport: Granma’s Press Coverage of Cuba’s Performance from the 1976 Montreal Olympics to the 2016 Rio Olympics1
The Winter Olympics: A Century of Games on Ice and Snow1
Race but Not Racism: The Jesse Owens Story and Race1
C. Gärtner, the Olympic Circus, and the Origins of Equestrianism in the Grand Duchy of Posen1
Strategic Role of Taiwanese Acrobatics in the Cultural Diplomacy of the Republic of China since the Cold War1
The Decline of Lawn Tennis in Ireland around the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Bad Management, Bad Luck, or Bad Homburg?1
Playing with the Boycott: Israel-South Africa Sports Ties in the Apartheid Era*1
A Historical Review of Elite Sport Development in Hong Kong1
The Cool Runnings Effect: Flexible Citizenship, the Global South, and Transcultural Republics at the Winter Olympic Games1
Gearing Up: Materials and Technology in the History of Sport1
Separate Spheres and Separate Roles: Christian Beliefs, Medical Ideology, and Women’s Sport and Physical Activity in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century United States1
Media Framing of Race and Football in Colonial Nigeria: 1914 to 1950s1
White Gold: Snowmaking, Resort Growth, and Skier Experience in the U.S. East, 1945–19711
Olympic Strategy, Nationalism and Legitimacy: The Role of Ideology in the Development of Chinese Elite Sports Policy in the First Reform Decade, 1978–19881
Olympic Games and Adventure Sports: The Inclusion of Surfing in the Tokyo 2020 edition1
Women’s Football in Brazil: Memories of the National Team’s Athletes1
An Imagined Community in Sport: The San Antonio ‘Spurs Family’1
Recorde: Revista de História do Esporte – An Overview of Its Publications (2008–2020)1
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend? A Clash of Anti-Apartheid Tactics and Targets in the Olympic Movement of the Early 1960s1
Romanian Women’s Participation in Recreation and Sporting Activities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century1
Edward Thring’s Theory, Practice and Legacy: Physical Education in Britain since 18001
The Icy Road towards the First Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix 19241
Exploring an Unmapped Physical Culture Landscape in Colonial South Africa1
Between Institutionalization and De-Institutionalization: Lifecycles of Sports Clubs in Israel1
Switzerland’s Century-Long Rise as the Hub of Global Sport Administration1
Interwar Crazes and Sport Diffusion: The Case of French Ping-Pong, 1932–19391
Mongolian Wrestling (Bukh) during the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries1
Planning for Legacy in the Post-War Era of the Olympic Winter Games1
Sport or Spectacle? The Harlem Globetrotters’ 1955 Visit to Israel1
The Imperial State of Iran, a Deal-Broker: Enabling the People’s Republic of China’s Asian Games Debut in the 1974 Tehran Asian Games1
Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970: Social Media & Collective Memory Making in Times of COVID-191
The Global Governance of the Modern Olympic Movement and China’s Responsibility Edited by Wang Runbin, Beijing: People’s Sports Publishing House of China, 2019, 230pp. Paperback ¥701
A ‘Rebel’ on the Run: Kenyan Gambles on Intercollegiate Athletics, Apartheid Sport, and US Road Racing of the 1980s – The Case of Samson Obwocha1
County Club Finances and the Decline of Amateur Cricketers in England1
Salvation on the Gridiron: Fundamentalism, Football, and Christian Manhood at Wheaton College, 1900–19491
Oral History and Sport Historians in China1
La Chica Moderna and the Virile Sport of Boxing: Women Boxers, Gender Politics, and Identity Construction in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s1
The North China Ice Games during the Period of the Republic of China1
Hungarian Football Coaches in Latin America in the Interwar Period1
Sister Rose Ann Fleming: An Unlikely Point Guard and Gender-Holistic Servant-Leader1
Athletics, Exhibitions and Exchanges: American Sport Diplomacy in Iran, 1955–19591
Athletics on the Pacific Islands – A Historical Approach1
Beyond Master Narratives: Local Sources and Global Perspectives on Sport, Apartheid, and Liberation1
The Rise of Cool Japan: The Representation of Japanese and American Athletes in Kuroko no Basuke: Extra Game1
‘Joys of Exploration’: Gender-Constructions in the 1959 Cho Oyu Women’s Expedition1
What Factors Determine the Success or Failure of ‘Cross-Border’ Career Development of Chinese Retired Olympic Champions? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis1
Visualising Sport: ‘Visual Turns’, Visual Texts, Visual Culture1
Football, Propaganda and International Relations under Francoism: The 1960 and 1964 European Nations Cup and Their Impact on the International Press1
The History and Evolution of the Fantasy Sport Voice: An Oral Account of the Major Aspects Forming the Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association1
The Yugoslav Secret Service and Croatian Football Supporter Groups1
A Hero for All Seasons: Pride of the Yankees, Brian’s Song, and the Athlete as Christ-Figure1
The Impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on China and the Olympic Movement: The Legacy1
Jim Thorpe – All American: A Thin Hollywood Line of Truth?1
Olympic Truce during the Nagano Olympics: Between Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy of the International Olympic Committee1
Via Olympica: A Comprehensive View on the Origin and Development of Climbing Competitions1
The Lost Inner Beauty in Martial Arts: A Pencak Silat Case1
In the Face of Tragedy – Nanga Parbat and National Socialist Radio1
Cricket in the Country of Football: Sport and Social and Cultural Exclusion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil1
Sexuality and Eugenics in Female Gymnastics in the Mid-Twentieth Century in Uruguay1
Walking through the Dark: FC Barcelona and the Forced Closure of 19251
Introduction: Sport-Gender Orthodoxy and Muscular Christian Values1
A Local History of Physical Culture in Uruguay: Horseracing and Football Outside Montevideo1
‘In the Interest of Reporting the Facts, and Not the Fiction, of South African Sport’: Race, Netball, and the Struggle for Social Justice in South Africa1
Canadian Government Involvement in Calgary’s Failed 1968 Winter Olympic Bid1
Skiers in the Service of the Second Republic: The Alpine Battalion during the Spanish Civil War0
Sports and Recreation in the Modern Industrial Campuses of the Early Republican Turkey (1923–1945)0
A Tale of Two Medals: The USA, Olympic Ice Hockey and Popular American Views of Détente (1972) and Renewed Cold War (1980)0
Wisdom from the Wickets: Cricket Virtues and Colonial Governance in Lord Harris’ Bombay0
Excavating the Ancestry of ‘Globetrotting’: New Perspectives on the Intersection of Racial Politics, Civil Rights Struggles and anti-Apartheid Crusades in US Track and Field from the 1920s through the0
Ankō Itosu: The Man, the Master, the Myth, Biography of a Legend0
Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place0
A History of Chinese Martial Arts0
A Game Taken Seriously: The Foundations of Yorkshire’s Cricketing Power A Game Taken Seriously: The Foundations of Yorkshire’s Cricketing Power , by Jeremy Lonsdale, Car0
Oral History and Football Practice in Brazil: From an Emerging Methodology and Field of Study to a Critical Review of the ‘Country of Football’ from the 1970s to the 2010s0
A New Form of Fandom: How Free Agency Brought about Rotisserie League Baseball0
Sport and Society in the Soviet Union: The Politics of Football after Stalin0
‘We Do Not Divide Our Champions According to Color’?: A Failed 1938 All-White Follow-Up Tour of South Africa0
A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History0
Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration0
A Sporting Nation: Creating Sámi Identity through Sport0
Placard Carriers and Flag Bearers: Gender Representation in the Summer Olympics’ Parade of Nations (1908–2021)0
Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America’s Anti-Apartheid Movement Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America’s Anti-Apartheid Movement 0
Global Sports Fandom in South Korea: American Major League Baseball and Its Fans in the Online Community, by Younghan Cho0
Snowboarding Youth Culture and the Winter Olympics: Co-Evolution in an American-Driven Show0
More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan0
A History of the British Sporting Journalist, c.1850-1939 James Catton, Sports Reporter0
On the Origins of the Young Men’s Catholic Association as a Response to the Protestant Recreation Ethic in the United States, 1854–19090
The So-Called ‘First’ Korean Taekwondo School: The Ch’ŏngdo Kwan0
Olympic History and Legacy: New Research in Bidding for and Hosting the Olympic Winter Games0
A History of World Taekwondo-Approved Competition Uniforms0
‘We Have Given Birth to a Very Busty Infant’: Post-War Origins of Sports Medicine in New Zealand0
Cackyhander: Writing about Cricket, Sports History and the Olympic Games0
Popularization of Physical Culture and Tourism in the Grand Duchy of Posen: A Case Study of the Tygodnik Poznański (Posen Weekly) Magazine0
The Emergence and Development of Netball in Jamaica, 1909–19410
The Historiography of Asian Sport: Retrospect and Prospect0
The Pinochet’s Team. The Soccer National Team and the Coup D’état of September 11, 19730
Training Female Bodies for New India: Women’s Physical Education between Global Trends and Local Politics in Colonial South Asia, c. 1900–19390
The Big O: The Life and Times of Olsen Filipaina, Pacific Revolution Pioneer0
A Runner’s Journey0
Introduction of Golf to Korea during the Japanese Occupation0
Sport, the Media and Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives0
Identifying Contextual Factors That Informed Planning and System Development for School-Based Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Education: A Realist Evaluation0
Hockey: A Global History0
The Sporting Club Maccabi de Paris in the Interwar Period (1924–1939): The Path of a Zionist Club0
The Polish Olympic Committee’s Subjection to the Communist Authorities in the Stalinist Period: An Inside Story0
¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Laagues/En los barrios y las grandes ligas0
‘Complete Anglers’ in Persia: On the Genesis of the Art of Angling in the ‘Valley of Happiness’0
Jai Alai: A Cultural History of the Fastest Game in the World0
‘I See the Struggle against Race Supremacy and Racial Inequality as World-Wide’: Anti-Apartheid Campaigns, Civil Rights Struggles, and the 1961 Track and Field Tours of South Africa0
A Supplementary Sport? Towards a Historical Analysis of the Development of Badminton in New Zealand, c. 1870–19390
Defending the American Way of Life: Sport, Culture, and the Cold War0
Correction0
Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives, Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives , edited by Yonghan Cho and Charles Leary, London, Routledge, 2016, 126 pp.,0
‘Hey, Why Don't We Have a Bonspiel?’ Narrating Postwar Japanese Canadian Experiences in Southern Alberta through Oral Histories of Curling0
Regenerating the ‘Stock’ of the Empire: Biopower and Physical Culture in English Garden City Planning Discourse, 1898-19030
Ancient Physical Culture in Polish-Language Literature of the Enlightenment0
‘I Consider Myself a Political Prisoner’: The Long and Strange Journeys of American Rebels Enmeshed in Ironies of the Athletes’ Rights Crusade0
The Origin of Football in Poland’s Lublin Province, 1903–19220
The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer0
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sport: Sporting Literacy, Attenuated Agency, and Survivance0
New York Sports: Glamour and Grit in the Empire City0
The Sociohistorical Challenges to the Development of Women’s Football in Poland0
Japan through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics0
Sports and Lao-Viet Contact and Conflict in the 1930s0
Putting Logos on the World’s Best Running Feet: The Emergence of Apparel Sponsors in Ethiopian and Kenyan Athletics0
The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics0
Transnational Mediation of Sports: Attention and Verbal Framing of Men’s Handball Teams and Athletes on Danish, German, and Romanian Online Sports News Sites0
The Premier and China’s Pursuit of the Olympics0
Enemy at the Gates: Soviet Sambo and the US Martial Arts Community, 1964–19800
Six Minutes in Berlin. Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics0
‘God Bless Joan Payson’: The Surprising Coverage of the First Woman to Buy a Sports Team0
The Membership Composition of the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee: Between Appointments and Elections, 1981–20000
Pseudo-Olympics in California: From Circus Shows and Local Sports Competitions to a Mass Statewide Event0
Racing on the Rand: Black Competitive Cycling around Johannesburg, 1930–19600
The Uruguayan Civic-Military Dictatorship and Football: Authoritarianism, Resistance and Mediations (1973–1980)0
Developing Winning Ways for Women’s Sport: New Zealand’s National Netball Team0
Sports, the Cold War, and Anti-Communism in the Press: A History of the Brazilian Men’s Basketball World Championship Titles (1959 and 1963)0
Building a Disciplined and Efficient Body: Nationalism, Eugenics, and Physical Culture in Interwar Argentina0
Tracing Two South Korean Olympic Pathways: Symbols, Conflicts, and Integration through Global Sports Events0
Correction0
Introduction0
The Athletes’ Voice and a Feminist Ethics of Care: The Russian Doping Scandal at the 2016 Olympic Games0
Sports and Youth Movements in Indochina during the First World War0
The World Cup Chronicles: 31 Days That Rocked Brazil0
Interaction between Olympism and Host Cities: The Example of Paris0
Römische Gladiatorenbilder: Studien zu den Gladiatorenreliefs der späten Republik und der Kaiserzeit aus Italien0
Dongdaemun Stadium Memorial, Seoul: The Ambiguous Status of a South Korean Sports Heritage0
The History of Outdoor Learning in Canada0
The Nationalization of Algerian Football following Independence, 1962–19820
Fit for America: Major John L. Griffith and the Quest for Athletics and Fitness0
A Dilemma: Women in Turkish Sport News Amidst Modernization and Traditionalism0
Distance Education for the Public during Turkey’s Early Republican Period: Physical Education Lessons on Radio0
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Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age , edited by Niko Besnier, Domenica Gisella Calabrò, and Daniel Guin0
‘Athletes for Peace’? From the Quest to Hold the Mavericks Accountable to a Second American Rebel Tour of South Africa0
Grenoble 1968, Albertville 1992, and the Establishment of a Strategy to Protect and Market the Winter Olympic Emblems0
Building the Landscape of Sports Diplomacy: R. William Jones Cup Intercontinental Basketball Tournament on Formosa Island in the Cold War Era0
Beyond Gym Teachers: Women Who Advocated Female Physical Education in Spain, 1850-19230
More of the Kangaroo: 150 Years of Australian Football in Queensland – 1866 to 20160
Aerobics Made in Poland: Women’s Mass Leisure Activity in the Socialist State, 1983–19890
Nation, City, Arena: Sports Events, Nation Building and City Politics in Indonesia0
When the Party Is Over: The Fragmentary References of an Emergent and Socially Progressive Brazil in the 2012 London/Rio Handover Ceremony and Beyond0
Sport for All in Brazil in the 1970s: The Institutionalisation of a Government Policy for Mass Sport0
Taiwan’s Olympic Hero: The Legend of Asian Iron Man, C. K. Yang0
ʻ(Sports) Movies, Magic and Moreʼ: (Re)Telling the Story of College Basketball’s Integration in the Disney Sports Movie Glory Road0
Halina Konopacka: Famous Polish Female Athlete and Woman of Arts (Sport, Literature, Painting)0
Muscles in the Movies: Perfecting the Art of Illusion0
A Futile Contestation for Olympic Power: The Case of Roberto G. Peper’s Election to the International Olympic Committee0
The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First Reconsidered0
Outside: The Story of Qatari Women’s Cycling0
We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality0
Dawn of the War on Steroids0
Gaspar de Jovellanos’ Critique of Bullfighting0
From Balls and Hoops to Coconuts and Tambourines: Protagonisms and Paradoxes of European Coach Ilona Peuker on Brazilian Floors0
Manchester City Women: An Oral History0
Australia’s Game: The History of Australian Football0
El deporte en la Grecia antigua: aspectos sociopolíticos y culturales (Sport in Ancient Greece: socio-political and cultural aspects)0
Communication as Commodity Exchange: Mapping the Media Ecology of Fantasy Sport0
The Origin and Significance of the Korean Boy Scout Movement during the Japanese Occupation0
Tunnel and Crossing: The Future Road of the Olympics under Tokyo 2020 ‘+1’0
The (Not So) United Soccer of Atlanta: An Early History of Class Distinction and Racial Separatism in Organized Youth Soccer0
How Pure Was Romanian Rugby? Minority, Majority and Extremists in Romanian Interwar Rugby0
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