1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Sport and COVID-19
This book examines the initial impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global sport and the varying consequences of the sport shutdown on all levels of society. It also considers the many lessons that have been learnt so that sport stakeholders can successfully adjust and operate under the "new normal."
Featuring authors, cases and examples from around the world, the book explores the impact of COVID-19 on sport at all levels, from community sport – where local clubs, gyms and development programmes had to find ways to survive with pitches closed and projects cancelled – to the major professional sport leagues and sport mega-events, with events postponed and teams playing in empty stadia. It considers the economic, social and developmental impacts of the pandemic, including physical, mental and social wellbeing, and looks at how key professional and community sport organisations have reacted to the crisis, reflecting on the lessons learnt and preparations for future pandemics and challenges of similar size and significance.
With COVID-19 now endemic in the global population, this is an essential reference for anybody working in sport, from students and researchers to managers, policymakers and development officers.
Part I – Sport and the Pandemic: Setting the Scene
1 COVID-19 and Sport: Setting the Scene
Stephen Frawley and Nico Schulenkorf
2 COVID-19 and the Sport Sector
Lee Edmondson, Themis Kokolakakis, Shia Ping Kung and Ryan Storey
Part II – COVID-19 and Professional Sport
3 COVID-19 and Sport Governing Bodies: Pandemic Disruption
Jonathan Robertson and Adam Karg
4 COVID-19 and Professional Sporting Leagues: North America
Xiaoan Huang, Chan Hyeon Hur and Nicholas Watanabe
5 COVID-19 and Professional Sporting Leagues: European Football
Daniel Plumley and Rob Wilson
6 COVID-19 and Professional Sport Teams: Dealing with the Unexpected
Michael Naraine and Brandon Mastromartino
7 COVID-19 and Professional Athletes
Michelle Hayes and Jason Doyle
8 COVID-19 and the Precarity of Elite Women Athletes
Darren T Baker, Lewis Whales and Stephen Frawley
9 COVID-19 and the Narratives Surrounding Simone Biles and Athlete Mental Health During the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Andrea N. Geurin
10 COVID-19 and Women’s Professional Sport Pandemic Effects: Mitigating, Manoeuvring and Reimagining?
Michelle O'Shea, Hazel Maxwell, Sarah Duffy and Martha Lourey-Bird
11 COVID-19 and the College Sports Industry
Steve DeSimone, Victor Matheson and Siobhan Kiernan
12 COVID-19 and High-Performance Sport Management: Athletes and Coaches
Lisa Gowthorp
13 COVID-19 and Sports Consumption
Daniel Lock and Aravind Reghunathan
14 COVID-19 and Sport Sponsorship: Seeing the Silver Lining in Times of Crisis
Yiran Su and Heather Kennedy
15 COVID-19 and Social Media Use by Sport Organisations
Stirling Sharpe, Olan Scott and Bo Li
16 COVID-19 and Sport Tourism
Millicent Kennelly
17 COVID-19 and Sport Stadia: Managing Large Sport Facilities During a Crisis Like No Other
Richard Keith Wright, Koji Kobayashi and Thomas Fletcher
18 COVID-19 and Esport: Digital Mediation in a Restricted World
Emily Jane Hayday and Holly Collison
19 COVID-19 and the Impact on Sports Betting Markets and Sports Bettors' Mental Health
Hibai Lopez-Gonzalez and Levi Pérez
20 COVID-19 and Sports Law
Catherine Ordway and Jack Anderson
Part III – COVID-19 and Community Sport
21 COVID-19 and Sport and Physical Activity: Specific Effects and the Importance of Home-Based Training and Learning
Amri Hammami, Sofien Kasmi, Ezdine Bouhlel, Basma Harrabi, George P. Nassis, Magni Mohr and Peter Krustrup
22 COVID-19 and the Fitness Industry
Lloyd Rothwell
23 COVID-19 and Sports Clubs
Svenja Feiler, Simon Beermann, Kirstin Hallmann and Christoph Breuer
24 COVID-19 and the Developmental Aspects and Attributes of Sport
Tony Rossi, Kat Raw, Andrew Friesen, Tom Patrick and Emma George
25 COVID-19 and Sport Education: Youth Sport in the United States of America
Bri Newland and Matt Bowers
26 COVID-19 and Sport-for-Development
Marlene A. Dixon, Ashlyn Hardie, Stacy M. Warner, Emmaculate Owiro and Dennis Orek
27 COVID-19 and Sport-Related Corporate Social Responsibility
Christos Anagnostopoulos
28 COVID-19 and Disability Sport: Imagining Disability Accessible and Inclusive Sport Management Futures
Paul J. Kitchin, Andrew M. Hammond, Andrea Bundon, P. David Howe and Simon Darcy
29 COVID-19 and Sport Volunteering
Pam Kappelides, Haley Baxter and Russell Hoye
30 COVID-19 and Innovation in Community Sport
Per G. Svensson
Part IV - COVID-19 and Global and National Sport Events
31 COVID-19 and Global Sport Events
Geoff Dickson, Michael Craw, Richard Ajiee, Melody Johnston and Sean Phelps
32 COVID-19 and National Sport Events: A Case Study of the Sport Event Logistics for the 2021 Australian Road Nationals Cycling Championships
Alana Thomson, Kipp Kaufmann, Verity Archer, Abdel Halabi and Josh Ambrosy
33 COVID-19 and Sport in South Africa
Brendon Knott and Janice Hemmonsbey
34 COVID-19 and Sport in South America: Resistance, Indignation and Hope
Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui and Jorge Knijnik
35 COVID-19 and Sport in Japan
Yoshifumi Bizen and Daichi Oshimi
Biography
Stephen Frawley teaches and researches sport management and Olympic studies at the UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Nico Schulenkorf is Associate Professor of Sport Management at the UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
