The Golden Age of the Swedish Sport Model

After the war, in all of the Scandinavian countries, it was initially a matter of finding forms for how sport should be financed in the new post-war society. Gradually, sport was incorporated into the state welfare programmes, and by the 1960s commissions, inquiries and other organs had been established to administer or review the role of sport in society; there were also recurring tensions between exercise and elite sport. However, all these issues were dealt with differently. As we will see in this chapter, sport politics in Sweden resulted in an extraordinarily trustful relationship between the state and sport.