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Explore the Athletes

This page turns the coding into something more interactive: click across sports to see distinct body-image patterns, then move into a coding map that shows how themes cluster across the four dimensions.

01 · Sport-by-sport view

Each sport organizes the body differently.

The same athlete body can be judged through very different logics depending on what the sport demands, rewards, or visually normalizes.

Performance first

Most visible in hockey and endurance-based material, where athletes described the body as something to prepare, train, and use.

Appearance pressure

Strongest in dance material, but it also appears in tennis and cross-country contexts through comparison and athletic-looking ideals.

Context shifts

Several athletes changed how they thought about their bodies across in-season vs. off-season periods, or across training vs. competition.

No single ideal

The site’s clearest takeaway is that there is no one “athlete body”; each sport shapes what counts as strong, fit, lean, or impressive.

02 · Interactive coding map

Click a theme to see what it reveals.

This map is not a full atlas of every code. Instead, it shows several high-signal patterns that connect the interviews across dimensions and sports.

The map condenses your coding into a reader-friendly layer. If you ever want, the next version can go even further and show a true network diagram or a participant-by-theme matrix.