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

Table of Contents\nIntroduction\nList of Contributors\nChapter 1\n	Let the Games Begin? The Decision to Postpone the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics\n		Introduction\n		1. Denial and Anger Stages\n		Covid-19 is Not a Serious Problem, Plans for Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics Are Proceeding Normally, There Is No  “Plan-B.”\n		2. Bargaining Stage\n		Covid-19 is a Problem, but the IOC and Japan Can Mitigate its Impacts with Careful Planning.\n		3. Depression and Acceptance Stages\n		The Pandemic is a Serious Problem, and the IOC and Tokyo OC Have Decided to Postpone the Games, in the Best Interests of the Athletes.\n		4. Self-Congratulatory Stage\n		The IOC Has Made the Right Decision.\n		Conclusion\nChapter 2\n	How Covid-19 Exposed the Limitations of a Technocratic Anti-Doping System and the Need for Diversification of Responsibility\n		The Anti-Doping System During Covid-19\n			The Response to Covid-19 from the Anti-Doping System\n			Solutions to Covid-19 Provided by the Anti-Doping System\n		The Problem with the Technocratic System\n		Diversifying Responsibility for Anti-Doping\n		Conclusion\nChapter 3\n	Analyzing the “Position Paper on the Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis on the Sport Sector”\n		Introduction to European Sports Policy\n		Evolution of the EU’s Sport Competence\n		Background of the Position Paper\n		The Theory of Agenda-Setting in EU Policy\n		Introduction to the Signatories\n		Discussing the Action Plan of the Position Paper\n			Action Plan Items Related to Funding\n			Non-Financial Elements of the Action Plan\n		Implications, Reflections, and Limitations\nChapter 4\n	Containing the Virus, Killing Sports Journalism: How Rugby League in Australia Muscled its Way out of Lockdown\n		Sport and Pay TV: A Marriage of Convenience\n		The Virus Arrives\n		What News? Nothing to See Here\n		A Force to be Reckoned With\n		In Uncertain Times, Players Seek Clarity\n		Broadcasters Desperate for Product, Play Hardball\n		Sports Journalism: Fearless and Independent, or Leading the Cheering?\nChapter 5\n	Covid-19 and the Instrumental Use of Sport: What Does the Future Hold for Sport-for-Development Organizations?\n		Introduction\n			Background and Context: Covid-19 in the United Kingdom and Aotearoa New Zealand\n			Sport-for-Development in the U.K.: Response, Challenges and Opportunities\n			Sport-for-Development in Aotearoa New Zealand: Response, Challenges and Opportunities\n		Conclusion\nChapter 6\n	Time Out: How is the Media Industry Using the Covid-19 Lockdown to Rethink its Coverage of Women and Sport?\n		Introduction\n		Gendered Patterns of Sports Coverage\n		Research Methods\n		Findings\n			Legitimate and Mainstream\n			Gendered Patterns\n			Crisis Patterns\n		Concluding Thoughts\nChapter 7\n	Working out Covid-19: Being a Les Mills Instructor and Managing Health in Times of Quarantine\n		Introduction\n		Background: Les Mills and On-Demand Fitness\n		Results\n			Relocating Instructorhood?\n			Reconceptualizing the Meanings of a Fitness Community and Instructorhood\n			Bodily Capital and Aesthetics During Covid-19\n		Discussion and Conclusion\nChapter 8\n	Swolecial Distancing: Gym Closures and the Quarantine Workout\n		Sympathy for the Swole\n			Essential and Inessential Exercise\n		Essential Exercise\n			Neuraesthenia and the Exercise Cure\n			Biopolitics of Slow Death\n		Inessential Exercise\n			Joe Wicks and the Quarantine Workout\n			The Theatricality of Fitness\n		Conclusion: The Redistribution of Swole\nChapter 9\n	Havocking a Dream: The Impact on Athletes of the Suspension of Tokyo 2020\n		On Grief\n		A Loss of Self\n		Losing One’s Control Over the Controllables\n		A Looming Involuntary Career Transition\n		Grief: A Process that Takes Time in the Age of Acceleration\n		Using the Lens of Grief to Support Athletes’ Mental Health\nChapter 10\n	Interruption of Training, Sedentary Behavior, Resilience, and Mood State Among Female Catchball Players During the Covid-19 Social Isolation Period\n		Introduction\n			Israeli Covid-19 Implications\n			About Catchball\n			Physical Activity, Health, and Resilience\n			Catchball, Physical, and Psychological Empowerment\n			Definitions\n				Sedentary Behavior\n				Resilience\n				Mood State\n		Methodology\n			Study Participants\n			Study Design\n				Resilience CD-RISC-10\n				Mood State MDMQ\n		Results\n			Sedentary Behavior\n			Resilience CD-RISC-10\n			Mood State MDMQ\n		Discussion\n			Sedentary Behavior\n			Resilience CD-RISC-10\n			Mood State MDMQ\n		Limitations\n		Conclusions\nChapter 11\n	Africa’s International Sports Icons as Role Models and Activists During the Covid-19 Lockdown\n		Introduction\n		Methodology\n		Overview of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the African Continent\n			Infections\n			Lockdowns\n			The Effect on Sport\n		Background of Role Modeling/leadership and Activism\n		Latest Contributions of the Global Icons\n		Impact of the Role Modeling\n		Conclusions\nChapter 12\n	A Unique and Special Solution for a Unique and Special Time: Training Professional Football Referees Virtually\n		Introduction\n		Moving the Classroom to VirBELA\n		Referee Training on VirBELA\n			Engagement, Interaction, and Space\n			Challenges and Countermeasures\n		Beyond Formal Training\n		Other Benefits\n		Conclusion\nChapter 13\n	Between Self-Interest and Solidarity: European Football and the Covid-19 Lockdown\n		Introduction\n		The Biggest Crisis in Football’s History?\n		The Great Shutdown, March-April 2020\n		“At the End of the Day, it is About Money”: Self-Interest and Survival\n		Solidarity is Not Lip Service: A Collective Response?\n		Conclusion\nChapter 14\n	Covid-19: How Football Closed in South America\n		Introduction\n		South America in Context\n		Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Peru\n			The Virus is Coming\n			On Finances and Labor Disputes\n			The Forgotten: Female Football\n		Discussion\nChapter 15\n	The Zwift Pace: How Elite Cycling Faced the Covid-19 Lockdown\n		What is Zwift?\n		Guaranteeing Exposure to Elite Cycling Sponsors Through Virtual Races\n		Zwift: From an Entertainment Tool to a Valuable Resource for Training and Self-Fulfillment\n			Impact on Training\n			Impact on Identity and Motivation\n		Online Training Programs: Bringing Cycling Fans and Recreational Cyclists Closer to Elite Riders\n		Can Zwift Be the Future of Cycling?\nChapter 16\n	Analyzing Boxing’s Most Extended Break Between Rounds: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on National Boxing Federations and Innovative Responses\n		Introduction\n		Background\n			International Boxing Association and National Boxing Federations\n			Boxing and Historical Crises\n		Methodology\n		Findings and Discussion\n			Immediate Impact\n				“Canceled”\n				Financial Challenges\n				Athletes\n			Response\n				Governance and Guidance\n				Safety\n				Financial Guidance and Support\n			Actions/Strategies Directed at Boxers\n				Virtual\n				Engagement\n				General Boxing Community\n			Joining the Fight\n		Conclusion\nChapter 17\n	The Lift Seen Around the World: Hafþór Björnsson and Legitimacy in Strongman\n		Introduction\n		Circuses, Celebrity, And Contests\n			The Arnold Strongman Classic and the Drive for Respectability\n		Hafþór And the Lift Seen Around the World\n		Conclusion\nChapter 18\n	Rise of the Machine: On the Prevalence of Indoor Rowing Records Under Covid-19\n		Introduction\n		Records and Meaning\n			Shift to Quantification\n				Formalization of Progress\n				The Essential Nature of Records\n		Records Spike under Quarantine\n			Accidental Records\n				Deliberate Records\n		Renewal of the Spectacle\n		Conclusion\nChapter 19\n	A Handbrake Turn in Mexico: Crisis Management of a Global Motorsport Event\n		Introduction\n			Conceptual Framework\n			Case Context\n			Phase I: Denial\n			Phase II: Realization\n			Phase III: Making Amends\n			Discussion\n		Conclusion\nChapter 20\n	Crisis for Sport, Opportunity for eSports?\n		Introduction\n		The World Pandemic and eSports\n			Major Changes in the eSports Industry\n			Positive and Negative Implications\n			Changes in the Relationship Between eSports and Traditional Sport\n			eSports Industry in a Post-Pandemic World\n		Conclusion