On sport for all and elitist sports in Spain. Reply to David Moscoso-Sánchez, Álvaro Rodríguez-Díaz and Jesús Fernández-Gavira

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ID7285577
AuthorsNúria Puig (0000-0002-3496-2019, Institut Nacional d'Educació Física de Catalunya, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume15
Issue1
Pages96-108
Publication date2017-10-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal for Sport and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1613-8171 • E-ISSN: 2380-5919
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/16138171.2017.1374643
OpenAlexW2761940394
LanguageES
Citations received2
References cited12

This article is a reply to an article published in this same journal by David Moscoso-Sánchez, Álvaro Rodríguez-Díaz and Jesús Fernández-Gavira. The article in question addresses the relationship between sport for all and elitist sport in Spain from the transition back to democracy to the present day. Since I do not share the lines of argument expressed therein, I have written a reply based on the theory of sport as an open system in order to trace the evolution of and interactions between the different models of sport during the above-mentioned period. On the basis of my analysis, I demonstrate that it is not possible to assert that elitist sport has received preferential treatment in detriment to sport for all, as the target article claims. In the conclusion I refer to existing problems and propose possible solutions that need to be discussed in depth

Humanities · Sociology · Doping in Sports · Philosophy · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports and Physical Education Studies

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