This paper provides a critical look at the ways in which the female sporting body is discursively constructed within Triathlon Magazine Canada (TMC), Canada’s only triathlon-exclusive magazine. By exploring both visual and narrative representations of the athletic female sporting body, this paper exposes some of the discursive tensions that seem to persist in this popular triathlon-specific text. Both the sport of triathlon and the bodies of triathletes may each be understood as sites where essentialist ideas about the body can be effectively disrupted or challenged but TMC represents a façade of gender progressivism insofar as it (re)produces many of the same heteronormative representations of gender found in other popular sport magazines.
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Triathlon Magazine Canada and the (Re-)Construction of Female Sporting Bodies
Jesse Couture
The Absence of Resistance Training? Exploring the Politics of Health in High Performance Youth Triathlon
Parissa Safai, Jay Johnson, and John Bryans
While research and scholarship on the dynamic interconnections between sport and health has steadily grown in the sociocultural study of sport in the past few decades, this paper focuses more directly on the politics of health within sport. Drawing on a small study of the lived experiences and understandings of health, pain/injury, risk and precaution among 12 male and female high performance youth (16–19 years of age) triathletes and three coaches, we outline the ways in which health becomes depoliticized among high performance athletes as our participants made no connection to health as a political phenomenon—within or outside of sport—or to their own right to health as members of the high performance sport community. We conclude by offering some suggestions as to why health was (and is) rendered apolitical in high performance youth triathlon.
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance
Lucie Schoch and Madeleine Pape
). This is in spite of GECs being among the most widely adopted gender equality interventions in international sport ( Henry & Robinson, 2010 ; Matthews & Piggott, 2021 ). In this study, we examine the GECs of World Triathlon and the International Hockey Federation (FIH), which are the peak governing
“You Always Wanna Be Sore, Because Then You Are Seeing Results”: Exploring Positive Pain in Competitive Swimming
Gareth McNarry, Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, and Adam B. Evans
conceptualization of pain as positive reverberate with research on other sports and physical cultures. Our research therefore contributes to a sport sociological literature on pain in a range of sports, such as running, ultrarunning, and triathlon ( Allen-Collinson, Jennings, Vaittinen, & Owton, 2019 ; Hanold
Embodiment in Active Sport Tourism: An Autophenomenography of the Tour de France Alpine “Cols”
Matthew Lamont
competitor in endurance sports, including cycle racing and long-distance triathlon, since my mid-teens and have considerable experience traveling domestically and internationally competing in events. From a scholarly perspective, I have been researching sport tourism from a social sciences perspective for
Beyond Health and Happiness: An Exploratory Study Into the Relationship Between Craftsmanship and Meaningfulness of Sport
Noora J. Ronkainen, Michael McDougall, Olli Tikkanen, Niels Feddersen, and Richard Tahtinen
.4%), national (29.5%), and international/top tier professional level (33.1%). The most frequently reported male sports (or clusters of sports) were rugby ( n = 22), ultramarathon/marathon/running (cluster; n = 17), ironman/triathlon/duathlon (cluster; n = 15), martial arts (cluster; n = 13), golf ( n
Canadian National Sport Organizations’ Responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and Settler Silence
Yasmin Rajwani, Audrey R. Giles, and Shawn Forde
Tennis Canada http://www.ttcanada.ca/ Equity and Access Policy includes “Aboriginal peoples” ( Table Tennis Canada, n.d. ). — Taekwondo Canada http://taekwondo-canada.com/ — — Tennis Canada http://www.tenniscanada.com/ — — Triathlon Canada http://www.triathloncanada.com/ — — Volleyball Canada http
Gender Parity, False Starts, and Promising Practices in the Paralympic Movement
Nikolaus A. Dean, Andrea Bundon, P. David Howe, and Natalie Abele
, two new events were added to the Summer Games for Rio (triathlon and canoe sprint), which each had 50% participation rates from women in their Paralympic debuts and an equal number of medals for men’s and women’s events. The IPC has also added two new events (badminton and taekwondo) to the program
Too Many Chairs: Spatiality and Disability in Integrated Sporting Spaces
Nancy Quinn, Laura Misener, and P. David Howe
the festival. There is no para triathlon and the tri has taken place. (I had shared with her the competition schedule on the Games app). Really? I had no idea. It is too bad that so little attention has been paid to para sports. You know, my grandchildren would have loved to see these athletes
Engaging Multiple Medical Epistemologies: Medical Professionals’ Distance Running Advice and Treatment
Jennifer L. Walton-Fisette and Theresa A. Walton-Fisette
physical activity and endurance sports from participating in recreational activities such as hiking and golf to those who completed Tough Mudders, marathons, triathlons, and ultramarathons. Some of the participants treated patients who were distance runners regularly, whereas others provided care to