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This chapter investigates the transportation process participants in an international, non-competitive sports event perceive between their ordinary lives and the liminoid event experience. Liminal rituals lead to transformations and result in permanent changes, in liminoid settings, like sports event, people experience temporary modifications, as they are transported out of, and back to, ordinary life. The chapter explores how participants in the non-competitive, official Gymnastics for All world event, the World Gymnaestrada, experience this process. Using ethnographic research, it is argued that the awareness of the liminoid nature of the event, with pre- and post-liminoid stages, accompanies the way the event is perceived and experienced. The chapter contributes to the understanding of how liminality provides insights into the way an international, recurring sports event is experienced.
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Wichmann, A. (2020). From Everyday Life into the Liminoid and Back Again. In: Lamond, I., Moss, J. (eds) Liminality and Critical Event Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40256-3_7
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