Combining Competitive Sports and Education: How Top-Level Sport Became Part of the School System in the Soviet Union, Sweden and Finland

European Physical Education Review

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 196-206

  Mets‰ Tokila, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finland; Soviet Union; sports education; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993804686     PISSN: 1356336X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356336X020083002     Document Type: Article

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