Full Description
Very little research exists on organisation and leadership of elite sports in the Nordic countries. This book is both an attempt to start filling this gap and to stimulate further research in the area.
Contents
Table of content Preface... 5 Part I What the book is about... 9 1 Elite sports in Nordic countries: perspectives and challenges ... 11 Svein S. Andersen and Lars Tore Ronglan Part II The emergence of modern elite sport systems... 25 2 Elite sport development in Norway - a radical transformation... 27 Matti Goksoyr and Dag Vidar Hanstad 3 The institutionalization of Team Denmark... 43 Jorn Hansen 4 The Swedish elite sport system - or the lack of it?... 62 Johan R. Norberg and Paul Sjoblom 5 Finnish elite sport - from class-based tensions to pluralist complexity... 83 Jari Lamsa Part III Success stories... 107 6 The Swedish 'golf and tennis miracle' - two paralell stories... 109 Johnny Wijk 8 *ta ble of content 7 Norwegian women's handball - organizing for sustainable success... 131 Lars Tore Ronglan 8 Lions on the Ice: the success story of Finnish ice hockey... 152 Jari Lamsa 9 The revival of Danish track cycling... 168 Klaus Nielsen and Aage Hoffmann Part IV Perspectives and priorities in national elite sports... 191 10 Swedish elite sport: contested terrain... 193 Paul Sjoblom and Josef Fahlen 11 The anatomy of elite sports organization in Finland... 209 Jarmo Makinen 12 Danish elite sport and Team Denmark: new trends?... 224 Rasmus K. Storm 13 Olympiatoppen in the Norwegian sports cluster... 237 Svein S. Andersen Part V Same ambition - different tracks... 257 14 A comparative perspective on Nordic elite sport: filling a gap... 259 Svein S. Andersen and Lars Tore Ronglan Reference list... 285 Presentation of authors... 302 Index ...NER(01): GB IE
