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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Channelling Soft Power: The Qatar 2022 World Cup, Migrant Workers, and International Image21
Survival of Folk Sports–Related Cultural Heritage in China13
Olympic Winter Games in Non-Western Cities: State, Sport and Cultural Diplomacy in Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 202211
Olympic Charter Evolution Shaped by Urban Strategies and Stakeholder’s Governance: From Pierre de Coubertin to the Olympic Agenda 202011
The Diplomatic Turn: The New Relationship between Sport and Politics10
Winter Olympic Referendums: Reasons for Opposition to the Games8
‘A Strong, Sustainable Legacy:’ The Environment and Japan’s Winter Olympics7
Sports Trans-Cultural Communication between China and Russia under the Belt and Road Initiative6
Irregularities in Football. ‘Cooperativa’: A History of Match-Fixing in Romanian Football6
The Emergence of the Swedish Horse-Riding School from the Mid-Twentieth Century6
Forging a Link between Competitive Gaming, Sport and the Olympics: History and New Developments6
The Numbers Game: The NBA v. Motorola, Real-Time Statistics, and the Rise of Online Fantasy Sport6
Promoting the Right to Education and Dual Careers of Athletes: Former Korean Dropout College Student-Athletes as Social Agents to Promote Critical Conflict Resolution6
The Inheritance and Dissemination of Wushu Culture in the Global Era5
The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Inter-Asian Connections in South Korea5
The Olympic Movement and Safeguarding Athletes: Exploring South Korea’s Journey to Protect Athletes5
Tracing the Historical Contours of Black Muscular Christianity and American Sport4
Racialized Marketing in the Athletic Apparel Industry: The Convergence of Sneaker Promotion and Black Culture in the United States4
Expert Analysis: The Reciprocal Relationship between Sports Gambling and Fantasy Football on Television3
A New Starting Point: The Factors That Made Taiwanese Professional Baseball Players Migrate to Mainland China After the 1997 Match-Fixing Scandal3
Symbolic Power and Dual Careers of Athletes: Successful Career Transition Experiences of Korean College Athletes Who Quit Sport3
‘The world will be watching and so will NSA!’: A History of Technology and Security at the Olympic Games3
Because It Is There? Mount Everest, Masculinity, and the Body of George Mallory3
The Financial Impact of World Series Cricket on Australia’s State Cricket Associations, 1974–19823
Planning for Legacy in the Post-War Era of the Olympic Winter Games3
Sport, Ideology and Nation-Building in the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China3
Olympic Infighting: An Exploration of Power Games between Leaders of International Sport Federations and the International Olympic Committee3
Northeast Asian Modern Martial Arts: An Embodied Synthesis of Virtue Ethics and Deontology3
Bread and Circuses, Olive Oil and Money: Commercialised Sport in Ancient Greece and Rome3
Introduction: Sport-Gender Orthodoxy and Muscular Christian Values2
Media Framing of Race and Football in Colonial Nigeria: 1914 to 1950s2
Sports in the Transnational Public Sphere: Findings from the Case of Daryl Morey’s Hong Kong Tweet2
Sport Policy in China (Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy)2
The Environmental Reimagining of Olympic Sarajevo2
Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970: Social Media & Collective Memory Making in Times of COVID-192
The History and Evolution of the Fantasy Sport Voice: An Oral Account of the Major Aspects Forming the Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association2
The Icy Road towards the First Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix 19242
Walking through the Dark: FC Barcelona and the Forced Closure of 19252
Pakistan’s Participation at the Summer Olympic Games, 1948 to 2016: A Social Development Theory Approach2
Olympic Winter Games, ‘Cold Sports’, and Inclusive Values2
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 Olympics2
Sport Diplomacy and Survival: Republic of China Table Tennis Coaches in Latin America during the Cold War2
The Introduction of Western Sports during the Opening of Macau and Its Developmental Implications2
‘Cricket is Perfectly Suited to the Chinese People’: The Contemporary Development of Chinese Cricket2
The Attempted Grobalization of Parkour by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique2
The Lost Inner Beauty in Martial Arts: A Pencak Silat Case2
Growing in Tandem with Media: Fantasy Sport, Media Use, and the Formation of an Industry Giant2
The Impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on China and the Olympic Movement: The Legacy2
Educating the Elite in an Egalitarian Context: The Emergence of Sport Schools for Elite Talents in Sweden in the 1970s2
‘This Is Not a Problem but an Issue’: Chinese-Born Table Tennis Players Representing Another Country at the Olympics, 1988–20202
Summer Meets Winter: African Nations Participating at the Winter Olympics, 1960–20182
Lost in the Vault?: Demonstration Sports at the Winter Olympics and How Digital Media Can Bring Them ‘Back to the Future’2
The 1928 Olympic Winter Games in St Moritz: Tourism, Diplomacy and Domestic Politics2
Netball in Zimbabwe: Towards a Social History2
The Professional Body in Boxing and Strength Sports: The Connection between Manual Labour and Sports in the Early and Mid Twentieth-Century Sweden2
The Olympic Oath and so Much More: A Biographical Interpretive Analysis of the Life of Victor Boin, 1886–19742
Athletics, Exhibitions and Exchanges: American Sport Diplomacy in Iran, 1955–19592
The Early Globalization Process of Taekwondo, from the 1950s to 19712
Interaction between Olympism and Host Cities: The Example of Paris2
The Legacy of Sports Nationalism in South Korean Sport2
Historical Transformations of the Palestinian Civil Society: The Case of Sports Clubs in the West Bank2
From Cultural Import to Flourishing Sport: A Comprehensive History of DanceSport in China (1864–2023)2
The Institutional Position of Athletes in the Governance Networks of the Olympic Movement in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom2
Historicizing Machoism in Swedish Ice Hockey2
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
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
Olympic History and Legacy: New Research in Bidding for and Hosting the Olympic Winter Games1
From Stroke to Stoke: The Multiple Sporting Legacies of the Southern California Home Swimming Pool1
Empowering Indigenous Networks: Collaborative Governance and the Development of a Racial Vilification Code in the Australian Football League1
Evolution of Professional Football Management in the People’s Republic of China from 1992 to 20161
A Historical Review of Elite Sport Development in Hong Kong1
What Factors Determine the Success or Failure of ‘Cross-Border’ Career Development of Chinese Retired Olympic Champions? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis1
1932 Olympic Games: The Participation of a Unique Brazilian Athlete1
Edward Thring’s Theory, Practice and Legacy: Physical Education in Britain since 18001
Olympic Games and Adventure Sports: The Inclusion of Surfing in the Tokyo 2020 edition1
Playing with the Boycott: Israel-South Africa Sports Ties in the Apartheid Era*1
The Sidesaddle: The Unlikely Emblem of Equestrian Empowerment1
Oral History and Sport Historians in China1
Windsurfing’s Rapid Global Diffusion: The Evolution of a 1970s Technology-First Sport1
The North China Ice Games during the Period of the Republic of China1
The Rise of Cool Japan: The Representation of Japanese and American Athletes in Kuroko no Basuke: Extra Game1
Canadian Government Involvement in Calgary’s Failed 1968 Winter Olympic Bid1
A Local History of Physical Culture in Uruguay: Horseracing and Football Outside Montevideo1
Switzerland’s Century-Long Rise as the Hub of Global Sport Administration1
Romanian Women’s Participation in Recreation and Sporting Activities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century1
Mongolian Wrestling (Bukh) during the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries1
The Winter Olympics: A Century of Games on Ice and Snow1
Undoing Maradona: Subalterns of Sport for Development1
White Gold: Snowmaking, Resort Growth, and Skier Experience in the U.S. East, 1945–19711
C. Gärtner, the Olympic Circus, and the Origins of Equestrianism in the Grand Duchy of Posen1
The Beginnings of the International Ice Hockey Federation1
The Forthright Political Stance of Sport for Development in Korean Official Development Assistance1
Recorde: Revista de História do Esporte – An Overview of Its Publications (2008–2020)1
La Chica Moderna and the Virile Sport of Boxing: Women Boxers, Gender Politics, and Identity Construction in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s1
Sports, the Cold War, and Anti-Communism in the Press: A History of the Brazilian Men’s Basketball World Championship Titles (1959 and 1963)1
Hungarian Football Coaches in Latin America in the Interwar Period1
Sport or Spectacle? The Harlem Globetrotters’ 1955 Visit to Israel1
County Club Finances and the Decline of Amateur Cricketers in England1
A ‘Rebel’ on the Run: Kenyan Gambles on Intercollegiate Athletics, Apartheid Sport, and US Road Racing of the 1980s – The Case of Samson Obwocha1
‘That’s Jean Lowe’: On Being a Black Canadian Female Track Athlete in 1940s Toronto1
Baseball in the Atacama Desert: From Elitist Sport to Popular Identity in Tocopilla, Chile (1915–1971)1
Between ‘Battlecade’ and ‘UFC Redemption’: The Growth of Mixed Martial Arts in Canada 1996–20131
The Ambivalence of an Innovation: The Creation and Development of the European Cross Country Championships1
Visualising Sport: ‘Visual Turns’, Visual Texts, Visual Culture1
Nadia și Securitatea [Nadia and the Securitate]1
Olympic Philately: Reading the 1896 Athens Olympics from Postage Stamps1
Netball Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago: Content Analysis of Press Coverage Related to the 1979 World Netball Tournament1
Football, Propaganda and International Relations under Francoism: The 1960 and 1964 European Nations Cup and Their Impact on the International Press1
Via Olympica: A Comprehensive View on the Origin and Development of Climbing Competitions1
Salvation on the Gridiron: Fundamentalism, Football, and Christian Manhood at Wheaton College, 1900–19491
Sports and Youth Movements in Indochina during the First World War1
Training Female Bodies for New India: Women’s Physical Education between Global Trends and Local Politics in Colonial South Asia, c. 1900–19391
Sexuality and Eugenics in Female Gymnastics in the Mid-Twentieth Century in Uruguay1
Placard Carriers and Flag Bearers: Gender Representation in the Summer Olympics’ Parade of Nations (1908–2021)1
Athletes in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945–19921
Sister Rose Ann Fleming: An Unlikely Point Guard and Gender-Holistic Servant-Leader1
‘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
Between Institutionalization and De-Institutionalization: Lifecycles of Sports Clubs in Israel1
Stakeholder Engagement in Sport Policy Decision Making in Taiwan during the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Strategic Role of Taiwanese Acrobatics in the Cultural Diplomacy of the Republic of China since the Cold War1
Gearing Up: Materials and Technology in the History of Sport1
Olympic Truce during the Nagano Olympics: Between Diplomacy and Public Diplomacy of the International Olympic Committee1
Of Iron Men and the Beer: Democratization and Commercialization in the Triathlon History1
Local, National and Global Histories of Netball: An Overview1
Enforced Ostracism? Analysis of the International Sports Organizations’ Reactions to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine1
‘A Powerful Sporting Tradition among Canadian Basilians’: Early Twentieth-Century Catholic Priest-Coaches at St Michael’s College1
Pseudo-Olympics in the Grand Duchy of Posen: The Forgotten Sports Heritage of Greater Poland1
Exploring an Unmapped Physical Culture Landscape in Colonial South Africa1
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 Critical Assessment of the Contribution of He Zhenliang to the Modern Olympic History of China1
Enemy at the Gates: Soviet Sambo and the US Martial Arts Community, 1964–19801
‘Dis Football Sef … Na Wahala’: A Continental Contest That Troubled a Nation0
Regenerating the ‘Stock’ of the Empire: Biopower and Physical Culture in English Garden City Planning Discourse, 1898-19030
A History of World Taekwondo-Approved Competition Uniforms0
Nation, City, Arena: Sports Events, Nation Building and City Politics in Indonesia0
Cackyhander: Writing about Cricket, Sports History and the Olympic Games0
More of the Kangaroo: 150 Years of Australian Football in Queensland – 1866 to 20160
Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America’s Anti-Apartheid Movement0
Taiwan’s Olympic Hero: The Legend of Asian Iron Man, C. K. Yang0
Soccer and Society in Dublin: A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital0
The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First Reconsidered The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First reconsidered , edited by David Kirk and Patr0
‘We Have Given Birth to a Very Busty Infant’: Post-War Origins of Sports Medicine in New Zealand0
Halina Konopacka: Famous Polish Female Athlete and Woman of Arts (Sport, Literature, Painting)0
A Supplementary Sport? Towards a Historical Analysis of the Development of Badminton in New Zealand, c. 1870–19390
Out of Apartheid’s (Racial) Corner: One Man’s Journey from Bare-Fists to Bible-Puncher0
‘The Cheering Was Loud and Long’: Practical Feminism and the England Women’s Hockey Tour of Australia in 19270
The Pinochet’s Team. The Soccer National Team and the Coup D’état of September 11, 19730
Identifying Contextual Factors That Informed Planning and System Development for School-Based Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Education: A Realist Evaluation0
Developing Winning Ways for Women’s Sport: New Zealand’s National Netball Team0
The Athletes’ Voice and a Feminist Ethics of Care: The Russian Doping Scandal at the 2016 Olympic Games0
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
Introduction0
How Pure Was Romanian Rugby? Minority, Majority and Extremists in Romanian Interwar Rugby0
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
Australia’s Game: The History of Australian Football0
Wisdom from the Wickets: Cricket Virtues and Colonial Governance in Lord Harris’ Bombay0
A New Form of Fandom: How Free Agency Brought about Rotisserie League Baseball0
Ancient Physical Culture in Polish-Language Literature of the Enlightenment0
A History of Chinese Martial Arts0
A History of the British Sporting Journalist, c.1850-1939 James Catton, Sports Reporter0
Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives,0
‘Complete Anglers’ in Persia: On the Genesis of the Art of Angling in the ‘Valley of Happiness’0
Six Minutes in Berlin. Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics0
Archaeology of Historic Football Grounds: A Case Study of the 19 May Stadium in Turkey0
Distance Education for the Public during Turkey’s Early Republican Period: Physical Education Lessons on Radio0
Popularization of Physical Culture and Tourism in the Grand Duchy of Posen: A Case Study of the Tygodnik Poznański (Posen Weekly) Magazine0
On the Origins of the Young Men’s Catholic Association as a Response to the Protestant Recreation Ethic in the United States, 1854–19090
‘Athletes for Peace’? From the Quest to Hold the Mavericks Accountable to a Second American Rebel Tour of South Africa0
Manchester City Women: An Oral History0
Festive Federalism: Race, Nation, and Neoliberal Aesthetics at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games0
A Sporting Nation: Creating Sámi Identity through Sport0
Building the Landscape of Sports Diplomacy: R. William Jones Cup Intercontinental Basketball Tournament on Formosa Island in the Cold War Era0
Grenoble 1968, Albertville 1992, and the Establishment of a Strategy to Protect and Market the Winter Olympic Emblems0
Dawn of the War on Steroids0
Global Sports Fandom in South Korea: American Major League Baseball and Its Fans in the Online Community, by Younghan Cho0
Pseudo-Olympics in California: From Circus Shows and Local Sports Competitions to a Mass Statewide Event0
Gladiators: 4th-1st Centuries BC0
Aerobics Made in Poland: Women’s Mass Leisure Activity in the Socialist State, 1983–19890
More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan0
Major League Baseball Labour Conflict and the Popularization of Fantasy Baseball0
A Futile Contestation for Olympic Power: The Case of Roberto G. Peper’s Election to the International Olympic Committee0
The Membership Composition of the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee: Between Appointments and Elections, 1981–20000
The So-Called ‘First’ Korean Taekwondo School: The Ch’ŏngdo Kwan0
A Dilemma: Women in Turkish Sport News Amidst Modernization and Traditionalism0
Building European Fraternity Through Gymnastics: The Establishment of the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes de Gymnastiques, 1863–19130
A Tale of Two Medals: The USA, Olympic Ice Hockey and Popular American Views of Détente (1972) and Renewed Cold War (1980)0
Building a Disciplined and Efficient Body: Nationalism, Eugenics, and Physical Culture in Interwar Argentina0
The World Cup Chronicles: 31 Days That Rocked Brazil0
El deporte en la Grecia antigua: aspectos sociopolíticos y culturales (Sport in Ancient Greece: socio-political and cultural aspects)0
The Sociohistorical Challenges to the Development of Women’s Football in Poland0
Dongdaemun Stadium Memorial, Seoul: The Ambiguous Status of a South Korean Sports Heritage0
The History of Outdoor Learning in Canada0
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 Sporting Club Maccabi de Paris in the Interwar Period (1924–1939): The Path of a Zionist Club0
‘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
The Big O: The Life and Times of Olsen Filipaina, Pacific Revolution Pioneer0
Jai Alai: A Cultural History of the Fastest Game in the World0
New York Sports: Glamour and Grit in the Empire City0
Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age0
The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics0
‘Know the Game—Boxing’: Boxing in Colonial Kenya, 1895–19630
The Nationalization of Algerian Football following Independence, 1962–19820
‘A Hero Who Made This Country Proud’: Boxing, Nation, and the Politics of Sport in Kenya, ca 1950–19800
Historical Overview: Playable Female Athlete Characters in Sport Simulation Videogames0
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
The Origin and Significance of the Korean Boy Scout Movement during the Japanese Occupation0
Correction0
‘We Do Not Divide Our Champions According to Color’?: A Failed 1938 All-White Follow-Up Tour of South Africa0
On the Hand-Strike Techniques of Ancient Hellenic Boxing and Pankration0
Tracing Two South Korean Olympic Pathways: Symbols, Conflicts, and Integration through Global Sports Events0
22 Players Run After the Ball for 90 Minutes, and in the End England Wins. German Views of the 1935 and 1938 Germany–England Football Matches0
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sport: Sporting Literacy, Attenuated Agency, and Survivance0
Image of ‘Sino-Western Essence’ in the Press: On the ‘Dual-Track’ Physical Training System of Chin Woo Athletic Federation0
The Origin of Football in Poland’s Lublin Province, 1903–19220
‘God Bless Joan Payson’: The Surprising Coverage of the First Woman to Buy a Sports Team0
Japan through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics0
The Century-Long Struggle for the Leadership of World Sport0
An Alternative Model for International Competition: The First Women’s World Field Hockey Tournament, Copenhagen 19330
The Premier and China’s Pursuit of the Olympics0
From Balls and Hoops to Coconuts and Tambourines: Protagonisms and Paradoxes of European Coach Ilona Peuker on Brazilian Floors0
Sports in South America: A History0
The Bumpy Road to World Athletics: Foundation, People, Policies0
The Historiography of Asian Sport: Retrospect and Prospect0
Outside: The Story of Qatari Women’s Cycling0
Tunnel and Crossing: The Future Road of the Olympics under Tokyo 2020 ‘+1’0
The Emergence and Development of Netball in Jamaica, 1909–19410
Communication as Commodity Exchange: Mapping the Media Ecology of Fantasy Sport0
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 Runner’s Journey0
Sport for All in Brazil in the 1970s: The Institutionalisation of a Government Policy for Mass Sport0
Sumiyuki Kotani, the Kodokan Emissary to Brazil0
Ankō Itosu: The Man, the Master, the Myth, Biography of a Legend0
The Uruguayan Civic-Military Dictatorship and Football: Authoritarianism, Resistance and Mediations (1973–1980)0
Römische Gladiatorenbilder: Studien zu den Gladiatorenreliefs der späten Republik und der Kaiserzeit aus Italien0
Introduction0
Fit for America: Major John L. Griffith and the Quest for Athletics and Fitness0
Sports and Lao-Viet Contact and Conflict in the 1930s0
A Game Taken Seriously: The Foundations of Yorkshire’s Cricketing Power0
The (Not So) United Soccer of Atlanta: An Early History of Class Distinction and Racial Separatism in Organized Youth Soccer0
Muscles in the Movies: Perfecting the Art of Illusion0
Football and Black Identity: Lifestyle Construction in A Voz da Raça in São Paulo, Brazil, in 19330
Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place0
We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality0
‘Cheap, Scientific and Free From Danger’: Accounting for the Development of Field Hockey in Aotearoa New Zealand0
‘Hey, Why Don't We Have a Bonspiel?’ Narrating Postwar Japanese Canadian Experiences in Southern Alberta through Oral Histories of Curling0
Sport, the Media and Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives0
Correction0
‘I Consider Myself a Political Prisoner’: The Long and Strange Journeys of American Rebels Enmeshed in Ironies of the Athletes’ Rights Crusade0
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