The article provides information concerning empirical research named "Report on mountaineering in Spain: an approximation from the perspective of gender", conducted with public funds provided by the Secretary General of Education at the Ministry of Science and Education. The objective of this paper is to detail the obtained outcomes using a qualitative methodology. The results reveal the persistence of a gender identity, which is by nature very sexist (chauvinistic) between mountaineers in Spain. Also, it demonstrates how this gender identity determines the opportunities people have to partake in mountaineering, such as making a career out of this sport and the conduct between mountaineers, which is dependent on one's gender.

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The proposed work aims to offer an educational proposal with which to approach the Physical Education class with hearing impaired students through the use of different tools, with special attention to technological ones. These in turn are structured into objectives, materials, organisation, graphic description and a QR code for each game. These codes are linked to different videos hosted on the YouTube platform, in which the explanation of the games, mentioned above, can be visualised graphically using sign language. The whole creative process is described in the article, as well as possible pedagogical applications of the use of the tools created for this purpose in other educational contexts.

This article analyzes the results of a survey conducted in 2020 with Spanish Olympic swimmers and rowers, who were confined to their homes due to the epidemiological crisis. The questionnaire was administered between 23 April and 25 May. Responses to the questionnaire on emotional and adaptive reactions during the COVID-19 confinement (REACOVID-19) were received from 88 subjects, who represented 100% of the total population of Spanish Olympic swimmers and rowers. Through this questionnaire, they were asked about their living conditions, their daily training habits and their psychological, cognitive and emotional adaptation during the confinement. The results show the commitment of these athletes to their sports goals and their responsibility in respecting the confinement rules. Sixty-seven per cent of them stated that they had not left their homes for 96 days. In these extreme circumstances, the majority trained an average of 11 to 13 hours a week and coped with the confinement with a positive attitude, in spite of the inconveniences of social isolation, the lack of equipment and technical support for training and the limitations of their physical space. The article analyzes which emotional and social factors influenced both their motivation and their hours of training.

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El presente artículo forma parte de la sección de debate "Deporte y COVID-19" del Volumen 1, Número 1, de Sociología del Deporte (SD).

O sistema esportivo próprio da democracia estáem crise. Istoporque o Estado de bem-estar, sobre o qual se sustentam muitas das políticas públicas ao esporte, tem sido desbancado por um novo ciclo de hegemonia neoliberal. Para ilustrar essa realidade, nos centramos no caso espanhol. Evidencia-se como a sociedade civil se encontra pouco representada pelas decisões políticas em matéria esportiva, e como o esporte organizado tem deixado de cumprir uma função social, ao circunscrever-se aos interesses dos agentes econômicos. O artigo reclama das ciências sociais uma postura crítica ante tal realidade.

El turismo deportivo de naturaleza ha experimentado una inusitada difusión en las últimas décadas. Se puede decir metafóricamente que una de las últimas revoluciones vividas en el mundo rural ha sido la colonización del ocio en sus pueblos y entornos naturales. En las situaciones más paradigmáticas, dicho fenómeno ha transformado lugares aislados y pueblos remotos en paisajes masificados y economías de especulación turística. A este proceso de cambio social y económico ha contribuido las políticas comunitarias de desarrollo rural —programas como LEADER y FEADER implementados de forma continuada entre 1991 y 2020—. Tales políticas han reinventando el espacio rural atribuyéndole nuevos significados materiales, que es la imagen que se pone en valor (tranquiliad, aventura, calidad de vida, etc.) a través de nuevas actividades económicas como el turismo deportivo de naturaleza. Al tratarse de un proceso artificial que transforma un espacio, unos significados y unos modelos de economía ya asentados (la agricultura, la ganadería, la explotación forestal, la caza, etc.), también genera conflictos en la articulación de intereses, algo que se plasmará en las relaciones sociales, políticas y económicas, entre los viejos y nuevos actores del medio rural. El presente artículo aborda este proceso, con la finalidad de proporcionar claves para una adecuada ordenación del turismo deportivo de naturaleza basada en la concertación social.