The perseverance of COVID-19 triggered drastic changes in how sport is delivered and practiced today. This chapter focuses on understanding how female youth football players (U18) in Korea interpret challenges associated with the spread of the virus and preventive measures implemented to...

Sports have always been a source of attraction and interest and has frequently been laden with social and cultural meanings. Although sports presume to be fair and free of external interests, they are usually greatly influenced by local and international politics. The commercialization and...

Global negativities resulting from the cancellation or postponement of national and international sporting events due to the COVID-19 pandemic have affected sports lovers, fans, and all sectors of the sports industry. Depending on these effects, while the options regarding sports betting differ...

In this chapter the focus is on participation in physical activity and sports in Flanders, Belgium, after the introduction of the COVID-19 lockdown. An overview is given of how and to what extent adults experienced the imposed measures and their impacts, starting from the finding that there has...

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people's social, economic, and cultural lives have been dramatic. Social isolation, information overload from news consumption, the absence of sports activities, and other phenomena contributed to a significant rise in the volume of online gaming during...

In Italy the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic caused the stop of all sports competitions for the 2019/2020 season. While most disciplines decided to permanently cancel competitions, the football segment – especially Serie A – of the sport industry considered the possibility of resuming...

The COVID-19 pandemic has created restrictions on Canadian minor ice hockey that have transformed its social landscape. By conducting online interviews and surveys of hockey parents, we identified how families have struggled and adapted to these 'unsettled' times in the hockey community. Parents...

The aim of this paper is to examine whether the thesis of a crisis-resilient sports sector can also be valid for the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. In fact, the sport sector shows that it has had to weather many crises and has weathered them very well. This also applies to the COVID-19 crisis, as...

This chapter is based on research that was aimed to describe and correlate the mood and anxiety of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic and compare students who practice and do not practice sports. The cross-sectional non-experimental study examined in this chapter was divided into...

The unprecedented times resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic impacted sport in Australia, particularly traditional volunteering in community sport. Government legislation on social distancing and the cancellation or postponement of community sport, triggered by COVID-19, threatened the practice...