Susanna Hedenborg is Professor in Sport Science at Malmö University, Sweden. She is the author of several books and articles and has gained honorary prizes as an author of textbooks in history, and as a sport historian.Gertrud Pfister is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She has conducted several large national and international research projects, and has published more than 200 articles and twenty books.

• Introduction 1. Fairy tales? Marion Jones, C.J. Hunter and the framing of doping in American newspapers 2. The female ‘apologetic’ behaviour within Canadian women’s rugby: athlete perceptions and media influences 3. Are women still the ‘other sex’: gender and sport in the Polish mass media 4. Mike Penner ‘or’ Christine Daniels: the US media and the fractured representation of a transgender sportswriter 5. Hit and tell – Swedish hooligan narratives 6. Gender and politics at the 2012 Olympics: media coverage and its implications 7. Constructing gender differences: newspaper portrayals of male and female gymnasts at the 2012 Olympic Games 8. The rocker and the heroine: gendered media representations of equestrian sports at the 2012 Olympics

Susanna Hedenborg is Professor in Sport Science at Malmö University, Sweden. She is the author of several books and articles and has gained honorary prizes as an author of textbooks in history, and as a sport historian.Gertrud Pfister is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She has conducted several large national and international research projects, and has published more than 200 articles and twenty books.

• Introduction 1. Fairy tales? Marion Jones, C.J. Hunter and the framing of doping in American newspapers 2. The female ‘apologetic’ behaviour within Canadian women’s rugby: athlete perceptions and media influences 3. Are women still the ‘other sex’: gender and sport in the Polish mass media 4. Mike Penner ‘or’ Christine Daniels: the US media and the fractured representation of a transgender sportswriter 5. Hit and tell – Swedish hooligan narratives 6. Gender and politics at the 2012 Olympics: media coverage and its implications 7. Constructing gender differences: newspaper portrayals of male and female gymnasts at the 2012 Olympic Games 8. The rocker and the heroine: gendered media representations of equestrian sports at the 2012 Olympics

Susanna Hedenborg is Professor in Sport Science at Malmö University, Sweden. She is the author of several books and articles and has gained honorary prizes as an author of textbooks in history, and as a sport historian.Gertrud Pfister is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She has conducted several large national and international research projects, and has published more than 200 articles and twenty books.

• Introduction 1. Fairy tales? Marion Jones, C.J. Hunter and the framing of doping in American newspapers 2. The female ‘apologetic’ behaviour within Canadian women’s rugby: athlete perceptions and media influences 3. Are women still the ‘other sex’: gender and sport in the Polish mass media 4. Mike Penner ‘or’ Christine Daniels: the US media and the fractured representation of a transgender sportswriter 5. Hit and tell – Swedish hooligan narratives 6. Gender and politics at the 2012 Olympics: media coverage and its implications 7. Constructing gender differences: newspaper portrayals of male and female gymnasts at the 2012 Olympic Games 8. The rocker and the heroine: gendered media representations of equestrian sports at the 2012 Olympics