Foreword : international sport in Context / Roberta J. Park -- Introduction : drawing a new map of the world in sport / Joel Nathan Rosen and Maureen M. Smith -- Suzanne Lenglen : liberated woman, French revolutionary, or both? / Nancy E. Spencer -- Valentino Rossi : a uniquely British look at an Italian motorsport legend / Sean Bell -- Andy Murray : savior from outside the margins / Lisa Doris Alexander and Dan Travis -- The interaction of personal, local, and global forces : Yao Ming's rise and sustained influence in Chinese sport / Dong Jinxia, Zhong Yijing, and Li Luyang -- Duke Kahanamoku : racialized colonization and the exoticization of aquatic royalty / Joel S. Franks -- Chad Rowan : ritual, religion, and one American's pitch-perfect performance inside Japan's Hall of National Sport / Mark Panek -- From out of the shadows of invisibility : Brazilian women's football and the pioneering figure of Marta / Claudia Samuel Kessler and Silvana Vilodre Goellner -- The many faces of Samuel Eto?o Fils : (re)solving an irascible persona / Benn L. Bongang -- Murali and Sanga : forging identity and pride through cricket in a small island nation / Gamage Harsha Perera and Tim B. Swartz -- Grete Waitz : the art of hurrying |