Dag Vidar Hanstad is Associate Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway. He is head of the Department of Cultural and Social Studies and currently leader of a research project on the Youth Olympic Games. Milena M. Parent is an Associate Professor in the School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Canada, and at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. She is also a lecturer in the MEMOS (Executive Masters in Sport Organisations Management) and Russian International Olympic University programmes. Barrie Houlihan is Professor of Sport Policy in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, UK and also Visiting Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
"""The book is the only one to my knowledge takes hold on the Olympic movement's latest spin-off… As reference material for the Olympic interested is therefore a natural addition to the book collection."" - Bjorn Sandahl (2015) Olympic outgrowth under the microscope - the Olympic Youth Games, ‘idrottsforum.org’: idrottsforum.org/sanbjo_hanstadetal151007/#"