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  • The lived experience of sex-integrated sport and the construction of athlete identity within the Olympic and Paralympic equestrian disciplines

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    Author(s)
    de Haan, Donna
    Sotiriadou, Popi
    Henry, Ian
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    Sotiriadou, Popi
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    Equestrian sport is not subjected to the dominant binary sex segregation of most sports and therefore provides a unique opportunity to review how athlete ‘identity’ is constructed and framed within a sex-integrated sporting experience. This research draws on an ethnographic evaluation of the Olympic and Paralympic experience of the British Equestrian Team. A total of 28 interviews were conducted with riders, performance managers and support staff with transcripts subjected to Ethnographic Content Analysis. Results show clear constructs of identity, such as ‘them and us’, ‘horsey’ and ‘discipline specific’, with a noted absence ...
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    Equestrian sport is not subjected to the dominant binary sex segregation of most sports and therefore provides a unique opportunity to review how athlete ‘identity’ is constructed and framed within a sex-integrated sporting experience. This research draws on an ethnographic evaluation of the Olympic and Paralympic experience of the British Equestrian Team. A total of 28 interviews were conducted with riders, performance managers and support staff with transcripts subjected to Ethnographic Content Analysis. Results show clear constructs of identity, such as ‘them and us’, ‘horsey’ and ‘discipline specific’, with a noted absence of gender in the way interviewees describe themselves and others within the sport. Furthermore, in their accounts of their lives, there is a lack of salience of gender with regard to their identity as sports persons. The paper considers the implications of this phenomenon for a claim that equestrian sport might be described from a participant’s perspective as gender neutral.
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    Journal Title
    Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics
    Volume
    19
    Issue
    8-9
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2015.1096259
    Copyright Statement
    © 2016 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Sport in Society on 19 Oct 2015, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17430437.2015.1096259
    Subject
    Sports science and exercise
    Sociology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/99288
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