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Podcast: Physical Activity Researcher
Episode: Sport in Later Life: Countercultural or the New Ideal? Prof. Rylee Dionigi - Meaningful Sport Series
Description: Opportunities for involvement in sports in later life have increased significantly and many sports around the globe have competitions and categories for Masters/Veteran athletes. At the same time, researchers have explored the experiences and meanings of being an older athlete, showing tensions in individual experiences as well as in shifting social discourse surrounding sport and ageing. We have shifted from ageing-as-decline to active ageing discourses, which provide different imagination of growing old. But are there also some darker sides in the shift towards more positive visions of ageing?
Rylee Dionigi is a professor in of Sport...