The popularisation of an active lifestyle and sports is a hot topic today. The countries activate
the interest of the population in physical culture introducing creative training activities in …

Using situational leadership models, the current study examined direct and indirect
relationships between coaching styles (ie, democratic and autocratic) and athletes' intent to …

Sporting success may be influenced by several factors, the magnitudes of which are
revealed throughout the athletes' training process. This study sought to systematically review …

In January of 2018, after decades of sexual abuse of hundreds of athletes under his medical
care, USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar faced 156 of the women he victimized …

How the Cold War era changed the trajectory of women's gymnastics Electrifying athletes
like Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci helped make women's artistic gymnastics one of the …

This article introduces several concepts from Actor-Network Theory (ANT) through
problematising the athlete as a heterogeneous entity that is multiply enacted. Through these …

Objective/Background: Taking part in sport can help decrease the risk of children developing
obesity and related diseases in an enjoyable way, yet 35% of children dropout from sport …

Violence in women's artistic gymnastics (WAG) is well documented. In this chapter, we bring
together a sociological perspective of violence and a feminist perspective of gender to …

In 2021, Australian gymnasts—current and former—bravely disclosed their experience of
interpersonal violence and its profound impact to the Australian Human Rights …

This paper examines the “Russian diva,” a label used by media within specific periods of
Women's Artistic Gymnastics. In using it, broadcasters created rival gymnastics femininities …