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Over the last four decades, feminist sports media research has developed into an established transdisciplinary branch of research that contributes to highlighting the contradictions and unevenness of social change at the level of women's sports and its positioning in society. In this context, the increasing media visibility of athlete mothers as an expression of an emerging social phenomenon provides an opportunity to examine and reflect on the patterns of media portrayal of sportswomen. This article focuses on the media representations of Gloria Kotnik, the Slovenian snowboarder and bronze medalist at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Through textual analysis, it attempts to identify how Kotnik was portrayed in selected Slovenian media and what role her motherhood, in particular, played in this. While ambivalence was identified as a predominant pattern in the media representations of Kotnik, the role of motherhood was presented both as something seemingly incompatible with the role of an elite athlete and in a way that perceived these two roles as compatible. Due to the reproduction of traditional gender ideologies and hierarchies, the article problematizes both patterns and concludes by linking the desire for social change with the need to redefine the ethics of care.

Focusing on the steps that literally and metaphorically guide us today, this paper takes walking as its main subject and establishes it theoretically as a form of subversive bodily movement. If contemporary sociological and humanistic treatments of walking show that this everyday practice has not been completely overlooked, the gap opens at the level of thinking it in relation to the dominant social order and its spatial and temporal manifestations. As we argue, in the hegemonic neoliberal context, walking has the potential to manifest itself as a practice that breaks with the existing logic of both space and time. Through the methodological application of the cat's cradle game, we develop a theoretical argumentation to ground walking as a bodily practice that requires different space and different time. Emanating from the body, it opens to the space and time of enjoyment – a heterotopia erected in relation to the current neoliberal hegemony, but in the manner of a crack, a path that carries the projection of a possible alternative.

This paper focuses on the relationship between sport, national identity and the media in the post-socialist nation-states of Croatia and Slovenia. It describes what has changed during the eight years since Jakov Fak, a Croatian-born Slovenian biathlete, changed his citizenship and began competing for the Slovenian national team. It also examines how the perception of Jakov Fak as an athlete and of his success has changed through time in different socio-political circumstances – in 2009 and 2010 when he competed for Croatia, and after 2010 when he began competing for Slovenia. To analyse this case we have used different media interpretations of Jakov Fak case, analysing four sports events: the Biathlon World Championships in South Korea (13–22 Feb 2009) and Germany (1–11 Mar 2012), and the Olympic Games in Canada (11–18 Feb 2010) and South Korea (9–25 Feb 2018). The results of discourse analysis show that in the case of Jakov Fak in the years 2009 and 2010, the public was provoked by and exposed to national symbolism, especially in political discourse. The media discourse did change between 2012 and 2018, and discourse typical of civic nationalism began to dominate. Two types of nationalism are mixed in a post-socialist context.

The issue about working with the young in sport is current from the aspect of some recent international charts, initiated mostly in the European Council and in researches and considerations which could be traced in a number of scientific and expert reviews. Humanization of the work with the young is one of the permanent social topics, irrespective of the momentary characteristics of the existent society order itself. Working with the young in sport is, for example as in the case of human rights, more often defined in words than realized in practice. That is why humanity will have to put humanism as a civilization movement continuously on the civilization daily agenda not only in theory but also in practice. The highest axiological principle of sport should be: human popularity of its essence. This is also considered to be the highest value, because only when being in possession of this value we can practice the processes of true humanization without the fear of slipping into sports ethical utopia or vulgar market pragmatism which leads to the dehumanization of a sportsman's results and consequently to the dehumanization of his or her personality. We see the mentioned processes as the only effective means of overcoming the various -isms: biologisms, kinesiologisms, biomechanicisms, methodologisms. and others, which are scientifically correctly determined as "one- sidedness". Within the field of sport it is obviously the holistic approach that is offered to us as the only correct possibility. ; Das Problem - Umgang mit Jugendlichen im Sport - wird aktualisiert, besonders wenn man es im Hinblick neuer internationalen Sportabkommen betrachtet, die von der Mehrheit im Europäischen Parlament veranlasst wurden, wie auch durch Untersuchungen und Einnahmestellungen, die in einer Anzahl von wissenschaftlichen und Fachtexten zu lesen sind. Die Humanisierung der Arbeit mit Jugendlichen ist eins der ständigen gesellschaftlichen Themen, ohne Rücksicht auf die Merkmale der entsprechenden gemeinschaftlichen Beziehungen. Die Arbeit mit Jugendlichen auf dem Sportgebiet - ähnlich wie mit Menschenrechten - ist öfters durch Worte ausgedrückt als in den Tat umgesetzt. So hat sich die Menschheit auf die Dauer nach der Humanismus als einer gesellschaftlichen Bewegung zu richten und sie auf "Zivilisationsprogramm" zu setzen - nicht nur in der Theorie, sondern auch in der Praxis. Der höchste axiologische Sportprinzip sollte heißen: humane Popularisation des Sportwesens. Das sollte gleichzeitig als höchster Wert verstanden werden, weil nur wenn man diesen Wert in sich hat, kann man die Prozesse einer wahren Humanisierung in den Tat umsetzen, ohne über die Angst hinweg blicken zu missen, dass man dadurch im den sportlich-äthischen Utopismus oder gemeinen Marketingpragmatismus hineinfallt, der zur Dehumanisierung der Sportleistungen eines Leistungssportlers und dem entsprechend zur Dehumanisierung seiner Persönlichkeit führt. Der erwähnte Humanisierungsprozess verstehen wir als einziges Erfolgsmittel zur Überwindung von verschiedenen "ismen": Biologismus, Kinetikismus, Biomechanizismus, Methodologismus, u.ä., die wissenschaftlich als "Einseitigkeit" zu definieren sind. In den Sportrahmen scheint der holistische Zugang als einzig richtiger zu sein.

The purpose of this study was to identify the career paths of transnational migrating female elite handball players. Fourteen Slovenian and Suisse national team players were monitored over a 7-year period by means of semi-structured interviews and official handball records. At the end of the examination period, six still-active players were interviewed again. Qualitative thematic analysis was employed to develop a contextualized understanding of participants' careers paths and life trajectories in relation to their athletic migration and dual career. In relation to the limited opportunities offered by small countries with middle-ranking national handball teams, participants highlighted that sport migration coupled with dual career opportunities represented a strategic decision for a successful career development through several key factors: (1) a clear intention towards a professional handball career; (2) the actual fulfilment of professional handball career aspirations; (3) dual career goals as part of the migration process; (4) high personal ambition and emotional connection to handball; (5) the implementation of a successful dual career path; (6) a positive migration experience; and (7) feeling supported and valued during relocation. Sport federations and elite clubs should consider the implementation of a multidimensional approach encompassing dual career paths to facilitate athletes' transnational relocation and career transitions.

To inform on the objectives and progression of the AMiD, EMPATIA, DONA, Ed Media, More Than Gold, Starting 11 and SOS ERASMUS+ Sport Collaborative Partnerships in which EAS cooperates with sport bodies and educational institutions to envisage novel solutions for the development of opportunities in education and sport paths of athletes. Dual career dimensions, evidence- and eminence- based methods include literature reviews, and desk, gap, SWOT and PESTEL analyses, focus groups, surveys, semi-structured interviews, workshops, and concept mapping. A limited implementation of the EU guidelines emerged. The findings underline the necessity of maintaining dual career among the European priorities in the field of sport and to envisage a surveillance plan at various dual career environmental levels (e.g., policies, systems, programmes). Through its participation in European projects, EAS contributes to the development of relevant European dual career aspects and to strengthen the link between educational institutions and sports organizations for the benefit of student-athletes.