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Podcast: Physical Activity Researcher
Episode: Skateboarding in the Olympics: A Collision of Two Incompatible Physical Cultures? Drs Brian Glenney & Paul O'Connor (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series
Description: Lifestyle sports are increasingly included in the Olympic Games. For the first time, skateboarding is included on the Olympic arenas this summer. For some people, this is a natural progression, whereas for others, this represents a collision of two incompatible cultures of sport (if skateboarding can be called such).
What happens, when Olympics (as corporate, nationalistic, spectator-based and points-based) and skateboarding (as skater-owned, globalist, cooperative, and style-centred) meet? Who will be the heroes and the zeroes?Â
In this fun episode - partly recorded from the beach - Drs Brian Glenney and Paul O'Connor take us o...