Time Out: National Perspectives on Sport and the Covid-19 Lockdown

Crosson, Seán; Free, Marcus

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“…There has been much contemporary debate in the media regarding the fears for the future of women's sport following Covid-19, with (often women) journalists, academics and advocacy groups for women's sport bringing these issues to mainstream audiences. That said, although there has been increasing academic attention to the impact of Covid-19 (see, for example, Krieger et al, 2021), there has been limited scholarly work thus far that empirically investigates the effects of Covid-19 on women's sport.…”

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The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Elite Women's Sport

Clarkson

Bowes

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et al. 2021

The Professionalisation of Women’s Sport

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The coronavirus pandemic in early 2020 prompted widespread global lockdowns as the world looked to contain and reduce the impact of the virus, including a pause on most sporting competitions (Parnell et al., 2020). Covid-19 has greatly affected the world, exposing stark inequalities, especially across gendered lines, in areas of society such as the labour market, domestic responsibility, and economic hardship (Alon et al., 2020). Sport is a crucial, interwoven aspect of society and like wider societal trends, elite women's sport has been adversely affected by the pandemic, facing an existential threat (Bowes et al., 2020; Clarkson et al., 2020a;Rowe, 2020). The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of how the pandemic is negatively impacting a wide variety of elite women's sports. Specifically, we cover sports where women have traditionally existed on the margins of the sport and could be considered as male-dominated labour industries. Centring primarily on the United Kingdom (UK), we present a brief chronology of the impact of the crisis on elite women's sport, across football, rugby, cricket and golf -in many ways different to the men's versions -spanning the eight months since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 until the time of writing in November 2020.Throughout, the chapter utilises qualitative data from elite sportswomen encouraged to share their experiences during the pandemic (see Bowes et al., 2020). Subsequently, this chapter concludes with a summary of the challenges for women operating in (semi-)professional sports environments.

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The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Elite Women's Sport

Clarkson

Bowes

Lomax³

et al. 2021

The Professionalisation of Women’s Sport

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“…We aim to contribute to the growing research (e.g. Davis 2020; Grix et al 2021;Krieger et al 2021;Parnell et al 2020) on how sport events have been adapted during the Covid-19 pandemic, by adding new data on the specific case of endurance events in Sweden.…”

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Keeping Distance? Adaptation Strategies to the Covid-19 Pandemic Among Sport Event Organizers in Sweden

Svensson

Radmann

2021

Journal of Global Sport Management

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sport has often had an important role in times of crisis, but the covid-19 pandemic is another matter. sport was heavily affected world-wide on all levels. in sweden, gathering people for endurance events conflicted with the covid-19 restrictions. some events were cancelled, but many tried to adapt. What adaptation strategies to covid-19 have swedish event organizers used? What role have digital tools played in their adaptation? What economic impacts did these events experience? We argue that the challenges posed by covid-19 have accelerated the digitization of endurance events and highlighted the tensions between commercial and non-commercial actors in sports due to the differences in financial structure and eligibility for economic support. We thereby contribute to the growing research on how sport events in general have been impacted by the covid-19 pandemic, and specifically in the context of sweden's somewhat exceptional response to the pandemic.

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Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy in Times of Change

Dubinsky

2023

Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy

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Time Out: National Perspectives on Sport and the Covid-19 Lockdown

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The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Elite Women's Sport

The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Elite Women's Sport

Keeping Distance? Adaptation Strategies to the Covid-19 Pandemic Among Sport Event Organizers in Sweden

Nation Branding and Sports Diplomacy in Times of Change

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