Judith Krieger
Biographic Data
| ID | 88666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Krieger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Krieger |
| SIGNATURE | KRIEGER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9157-0783 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Testing Boundaries
In 1971, Danish medical scientists from Aarhus University publicly opposed the use of a sex chromatin test to establish eligibility in women’s sport. Their protest rested on scientific grounds; they argued that sex could not be determined by a single biological criterion and warned of the psychological harm it would cause competitors with chromosomal variations. Buoyed by public support in Denmark, the medical scientists submitted a formal memora…
Athletes from ‘Nowhere
Sport organizations based in the Faroe Islands have aimed to receive membership in international governing bodies of sport since the late 1960s. Today, the Faroe Islands are recognized by many Olympic sport federations, for example in football (soccer), handball, swimming, and volleyball. However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) continues to reject a membership for the Faroese National Olympic Committee, arguing that the Faroe Islands a…
The Enhanced Games
The Enhanced Games, a privately funded sporting megaevent aspiring to rival the Olympic Games, have garnered significant media attention since its public inception in 2023. This attention has primarily been driven by the Enhanced Games' embrace of performance-enhancing drugs. Lost in the public fixation on the event's green-lit drug-use, however, is the fact that the Enhanced Games distance themselves from current Olympic standards in numerous wa…
Knowledge, care, and discipline
During the Interwar period, female athletes from Denmark dominated international swimming competitions. It was the first time that the country demonstrated sporting success in a core Olympic discipline on the global sporting level. Most of the Danish swimmers had the same coach, the co-leader of the Institute of Danish Women’s Gymnastics (DKI), Ingeborg Paul-Petersen. Based on archival sources and historical newspaper reports, this paper shows th…
Under the historiographical radar
Coaching researchers from different academic disciplines have been occupied for years in exploring the constraints and barriers that women face when entering the coaching profession, not only at the level of individual agency but also at a structural and socio-cultural level. This paper reprises some of their findings and recognises that historians of coaching have made little contribution to the debate, apart from confirming the critical part pl…
The Bumpy Road to World Athletics
World Athletics was officially founded in 1913 following an initiative by Swedish members of the Organising Committee for the 1912 Olympic Games. This article examines the forces at work that led to its creation. By highlighting the developments in athletics in certain countries, it is possible to understand the need for an international federation (IF) governing the sport and an overarching set of rules. The constitution and focus of World Athle…
Transnational Athletes – Historical Perspectives
International Sport Federations as Forums to Initiate Soft Power Processes
Sport scholars have used the concept of soft power to analyze the politicization of sport in the past decades, mainly by focusing on sporting events. In this paper, the analysis centres on the governing bodies of individual sports, the international sport federations (IFs), and it is argued that through powerful individuals in key roles in IFs soft power processes can be initiated. We focus on the case of Russia since the Russian Federation has h…
Athlete Perceptions of Governance-Related Issues to Sexual Abuse in Sport
Cases of abuse in sport have emerged with frightening regularity over the past two decades. Scholarship has identified risk factors that can help facilitate abuse in sport and has explored athletes’ experiences with sexual abuse. However, less is known about athletes’ perceptions of the systematic organizational-level problems that fail to curtail sexual abuse. This article, therefore, explores what athletes believe to be the key issues in govern…
Olympic Infighting
A diffuse network of institutional and individual actors comprises international sport governance. Amongst them is the General Association of International Sport Federations (GAISF), an umbrella organization under which international sport federations (IFs) are organized. For several decades, GAISF leaders have engaged in power plays with individuals leading the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The GAISF’s history from its foundation in the…
Putting Logos on the World’s Best Running Feet
Since the 1990s, most athletics federations have undertaken sponsorship negotiations with private shoe/apparel corporations. While these deals bring great sums of cash into the sport, some of which trickles down to the athletes, a great deal of it is used to leverage both hard and soft power in different regions of the world. The sponsorship regulations of national athletics federations have been recently politicized because of the ways that they…
International sport governing bodies as agents of diffusion—The case of World Athletics
The current paper conceptualizes international sport governing bodies (ISGBs) as “agents of diffusion,” whose key strategic interest is in the broadest participation in their sports. Our research examines the impact of a specific diffusion strategy, adopted by World Athletics in 2008, which was essentially the decentralization of decision-making power to license athletics events, and which aimed to increase the sports' visibility and accessibilit…
Power and Politics in World Athletics
Nebiolo and the power
Time Out
This paper examines the impact of the first Covid-19 lockdown in Ireland on Gaelic games and the sports-media complex in Ireland via an analysis of the media discourses surrounding these sports. It focuses principally on the period between March 12th (when the Irish government announced the lockdown confirming the suspension of Gaelic games fixtures) and May 12th. Gaelic games provide a unique focus on the topic of sport and the lockdown; they ar…
Annexation or fertile inclusion? The origins of handball’s international organisational structures
Sport scholars have increasingly explored the institutional history of international governing bodies of sport in recent years. Some sports, however, have received little attention. Handball is one of them. Despite handball’s modern impact and its global governing body, relatively little is known about the history of its governing body, the International Handball Federation (IHF) and the attempts to govern handball internationally. The following …
The world will be watching and so will NSA!’
The postponed 2020 Tokyo summer Olympics will be the first Olympic games to officially use facial recognition technology as a security measure. The use of such advanced technology to protect the Olympics continues a trend of Olympic organizers employing the latest in technological advances. This trend started in the early 1980s and continues to the present day. The following paper identifies four thematic areas: military support, privacy, cyberse…
Women in International Elite Athletics
Gender discrimination has been strongly related to the suppression of women's participation in sport. Accordingly, gender (in)equality has proven to be an important determinant for the participation and the success of countries in international women's elite sport. Hence, differences in gender (in)equalitity, such as women's participation in the labor force, fertility rates, tradition of women suffrage or socio-economic status of women, could be …
Vodka and caviar among friends’ – Lord David Burghley and the Soviet Union’s entry into the International Association of Athletic Federations
A critical figure in facilitating the entry of the Soviet Union into the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) that has been not been sufficiently examined is Lord David Cecil, the 6th Marquess of Exeter (hereafter referred to as David Burghley). Based on underexamined archival material from the IAAF Archive in Monaco, we argue that as the leader of the largest sports federation within the Olympic Movement, Burghley was in a po…
Our Sport’
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) initially ignored women’s sports. The efforts of female leaders and organizations, particularly Alice Milliat and the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI), instead paved the way for women’s inclusion in Olympic athletics. The success of the FSFI’s Women’s Olympic Games in 1922 not only served as a catalyst in this regard, but …
Athletics on the Pacific Islands – A Historical Approach
The sport of athletics is popular in Oceanian territories outside Australia and New Zealand, on the so-called Pacific Islands. However, little research has been done to trace the historical development of the sport in this region despite the fact that many of the region’s national athletics federations have been members of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) since the 1960s. This paper aims to address this research gap b…
Who Governs a Movement? The Iaaf and Road-Running—Historical and Contemporary Considerations
During the 1970s and the 1980s, road-running experienced an extraordinary growth in terms of participants and running events. Even though the runners mainly participated for reasons of well-being and fitness, and less for competition, the world governing body of track and field, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), attempted to govern and profit off the running movement from the end of the 1970s onward. This paper utiliz…
Sport Aid
This paper sets out to historicize the Sport Aid initiative that took place in May 1986 in an effort to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. Historical sources from the International Association of Athletics Federations Archives in Monaco and the Carl and Liselott Diem-Archive of the German Sport University Cologne in Germany are examined. Considered the biggest mass sport event of all time, Sport Aid built on the success of the much more f…
Manipulation in Athletics
This paper analyzes two cases of manipulation within the spheres of the supreme authority of the sport of athletics, the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF). It shows the lack of historical and contemporary policies in the IAAF to combat manipulation in its sport. The study draws on previously unexamined historical sources from the IAAF Archive in Monaco and the Carl and Liselott Diem-Archive in Germany, as well as recent rep…
Dope Hunters
Women in International Elite Athletics
Gender discrimination has been strongly related to the suppression of women's participation in sport. Accordingly, gender (in)equality has proven to be an important determinant for the participation and the success of countries in international women's elite sport. Hence, differences in gender (in)equalitity, such as women's participation in the labor force, fertility rates, tradition of women suffrage or socio-economic status of women, could be …
Our Sport’
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) initially ignored women’s sports. The efforts of female leaders and organizations, particularly Alice Milliat and the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI), instead paved the way for women’s inclusion in Olympic athletics. The success of the FSFI’s Women’s Olympic Games in 1922 not only served as a catalyst in this regard, but …
Born on the Wings of Commerce’
In August 1983, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) staged the first IAAF World Championships in Helsinki (Finland). The installation of the event came during a period when the world of sport became increasingly open for processes of commercialization and professionalization, extensively documented in sport history scholarship. Previous research has paid little attention to the IAAF and the establishment of its World Cha…
Vodka and caviar among friends’ – Lord David Burghley and the Soviet Union’s entry into the International Association of Athletic Federations
A critical figure in facilitating the entry of the Soviet Union into the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) that has been not been sufficiently examined is Lord David Cecil, the 6th Marquess of Exeter (hereafter referred to as David Burghley). Based on underexamined archival material from the IAAF Archive in Monaco, we argue that as the leader of the largest sports federation within the Olympic Movement, Burghley was in a po…
Athletics on the Pacific Islands – A Historical Approach
The sport of athletics is popular in Oceanian territories outside Australia and New Zealand, on the so-called Pacific Islands. However, little research has been done to trace the historical development of the sport in this region despite the fact that many of the region’s national athletics federations have been members of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) since the 1960s. This paper aims to address this research gap b…
Manipulation in Athletics
This paper analyzes two cases of manipulation within the spheres of the supreme authority of the sport of athletics, the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF). It shows the lack of historical and contemporary policies in the IAAF to combat manipulation in its sport. The study draws on previously unexamined historical sources from the IAAF Archive in Monaco and the Carl and Liselott Diem-Archive in Germany, as well as recent rep…
Fastest, highest, youngest? Analysing the athlete's experience of the Singapore Youth Olympic Games
The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) are the newest addition to the Olympic Movement and, in light of recent discussions of the education of high-performance athletes, represent a change within the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from a philosophy of 'winning by all means' to a philosophy much more informed by education. Therefore, this paper analyses the YOG through the experiences of participating athletes and puts their perception of the event …
Under the historiographical radar
Coaching researchers from different academic disciplines have been occupied for years in exploring the constraints and barriers that women face when entering the coaching profession, not only at the level of individual agency but also at a structural and socio-cultural level. This paper reprises some of their findings and recognises that historians of coaching have made little contribution to the debate, apart from confirming the critical part pl…
Putting Logos on the World’s Best Running Feet
Since the 1990s, most athletics federations have undertaken sponsorship negotiations with private shoe/apparel corporations. While these deals bring great sums of cash into the sport, some of which trickles down to the athletes, a great deal of it is used to leverage both hard and soft power in different regions of the world. The sponsorship regulations of national athletics federations have been recently politicized because of the ways that they…
The world will be watching and so will NSA!’
The postponed 2020 Tokyo summer Olympics will be the first Olympic games to officially use facial recognition technology as a security measure. The use of such advanced technology to protect the Olympics continues a trend of Olympic organizers employing the latest in technological advances. This trend started in the early 1980s and continues to the present day. The following paper identifies four thematic areas: military support, privacy, cyberse…
Who Governs a Movement? The Iaaf and Road-Running—Historical and Contemporary Considerations
During the 1970s and the 1980s, road-running experienced an extraordinary growth in terms of participants and running events. Even though the runners mainly participated for reasons of well-being and fitness, and less for competition, the world governing body of track and field, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), attempted to govern and profit off the running movement from the end of the 1970s onward. This paper utiliz…
Sport Aid
This paper sets out to historicize the Sport Aid initiative that took place in May 1986 in an effort to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. Historical sources from the International Association of Athletics Federations Archives in Monaco and the Carl and Liselott Diem-Archive of the German Sport University Cologne in Germany are examined. Considered the biggest mass sport event of all time, Sport Aid built on the success of the much more f…
The Sole Anti-Democratic Federation in the Entire Olympic Movement’
Studies on the development of Olympic Solidarity as a tool of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to enable National Olympic Committees of developing countries access to resources and influence in the Olympic Movement exist. However, historical scholarship has relatively neglected the development of aid programs by International Federations to explain how they made use of resources to gain influence in international sport politics. Based on…
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Hunger and shame
Gender Violence in Africa
Green, December. 1999. Gender Violence in Africa: African Women's Responses. New York: St. Martin's Press. 298 pp
Fastest, highest, youngest? Analysing the athlete's experience of the Singapore Youth Olympic Games
The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) are the newest addition to the Olympic Movement and, in light of recent discussions of the education of high-performance athletes, represent a change within the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from a philosophy of 'winning by all means' to a philosophy much more informed by education. Therefore, this paper analyses the YOG through the experiences of participating athletes and puts their perception of the event …
Dope Hunters
Born on the Wings of Commerce’
In August 1983, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) staged the first IAAF World Championships in Helsinki (Finland). The installation of the event came during a period when the world of sport became increasingly open for processes of commercialization and professionalization, extensively documented in sport history scholarship. Previous research has paid little attention to the IAAF and the establishment of its World Cha…
Sociology (32 works) · Political science (24 works) · Computer Science (23 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (23 works) · Citation (21 works) · Library science (21 works) · Anthropology (20 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (14 works)