Since 1987, Brazilians have incorporated padel into the country’s sporting landscape, and participation has increased markedly in recent years. Despite this growth, scholars have paid little attent...

In 1930, Montevideo hosted the first FIFA World Cup, coinciding with Uruguay’s centenary. While the event is often seen as pivotal in shaping Uruguayan national identity through football, most stud...

Between the decline of the ancient Olympic Games and the revival of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, literature played the most fundamental role in preserving the Olympic heritage. Descriptions of...

Australian Rules football, more colloquially known as ‘Aussie Rules’, is a unique sport that was first codified in Melbourne in 1859. The game quickly spread to all colonies (later states and terri...

Le Grand Bain, a feature film directed by Gilles Lellouche and released in 2008, was highly praised in the French press for its attempt to challenge traditional hegemonic masculinity. Its story fol...

Women’s physical education and sport in early twentieth-century China developed through missionary educational institutions and the YWCA. Moving beyond diffusionist interpretations that portray mis...

By illuminating the genesis of fencing between 1968 and 1973, the prevailing historiography of postwar Taiwanese sport is challenged. While official association commemorative albums and state-centr...

Before Peru and Chile met regularly through national teams, their football rivalry had already begun to take shape through clubs. Between 1927 and 1933, visits by Santiago Football Club, Colo Colo,...

In the first half of the twentieth century, physical education for women in Uruguay underwent significant changes in line with their gradual incorporation into public life. Against this backdrop, t...

Social dance in Korea evolved from a stigmatized and heavily regulated activity into the institutionalized form of DanceSport. This transformation was not a straightforward process of diffusion or ...

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Türkiye’s use of sport diplomacy through engagement with the Olympic movement during the late Cold War offers a significant case for global histories of sports diplomacy. Focusing on the hosting of...

The sociocultural significance of women’s competitive sports in colonial Korea is demonstrated through the basketball team at Sookmyung Girls’ High School. Introduced by American missionaries and t...

While international success in Japan, China, and South Korea is rooted in centralized national organizational governance, Taiwan followed a distinctive trajectory defined by private associations an...

The Harlem Globetrotters’ August 22, 1951, appearance in West Berlin, three days after the Third World Festival of Youth and Students ended, illuminates how private sport entered early Cold War for...

Rather than focusing on the history of caving as a sport, the environmental history of caves used by speleologists in France from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century considers caves a...

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Zimbabwe will co-host the Cricket World Cup in 2027 for a second time. The last time Zimbabwe hosted the tournament, it was overshadowed by political developments like the controversial fast track ...

The 1986 Yangtze River and 1987 Yellow River rafting expeditions demonstrate how a Western-origin sport was appropriated and transformed into a vehicle for sports nationalism during China’s reform ...

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Published in The International Journal of the History of Sport (Ahead of Print, 2026)

The International Journal of the History of Sport | 2 followers on LinkedIn. Now in its fourth decade, The International Journal of the History of Sport ( IJHS ) is the world’s leading sport history a...

In the second half of the twentieth century, the Yugoslav football coaching school emerged as one of the most successful in Europe. Yugoslav coaches developed tactical theories concerned with three...

The Wayland Baptist College Flying Queens stand as one of the most successful yet historically overlooked women’s basketball programmes. In fact, this juggernaut programme dominated the Amateur Ath...

In 2023 for the third time in history Napoli won Scudetto – the national Italian football championships. In this city football constitutes a significant part of collective identity on diverse level...

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) men’s World Cup was already 36 years old, and in its eighth edition before it got its first official mascot, World Cup Willie, a hirsute...

Golf as a form of elite sociability shaped the diplomacy, high politics, and economic affairs of the Federation of Malaya and Malaysia. Playing golf at exclusive private clubs generated social capi...

Peter Felix (ca. 1866–1926), an African Caribbean man from the Danish West Indies, was a prominent heavyweight boxer in Australia for two decades. Less known is Felix’s even longer theatrical caree...

The social status associated with high profile Australian Rules footballers has a long history dating back to the nineteenth century. This status was particularly enhanced when entrepreneurial comm...

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Situated precisely at the historical moment before the bicycle transitioned from an elite leisure pursuit into a widely accessible, utilitarian mode of transport at the close of the Gilded Age, chi...

Considered from a transnational perspective the Rowing Championship of the Uruguay River highlights the connections established among the clubs in the countryside of Uruguay and Argentina between t...

Football was introduced to Hong Kong by the British when it became one of their colonies. The Chinese-foreigner relationship in the history of football development in Hong Kong is often discussed i...

Although African boycott threats of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics over South Africa and 1972 Munich Olympics over Rhodesia had been narrowly averted, Canada took no chances in the years before the ...

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Track and field has shaped national belonging in Barbados from independence in 1966 to the present. While Caribbean sport historiography has largely centred cricket as the primary arena of anticolo...

Robben Island (RI) gained its notoriety as a penal island for political prisoners during the apartheid period between 1962 and 1990. Used as a maximum-security prison to incarcerate black male anti...