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,‘Acceptable Bodies’: Deconstructing the Finnish Media Coverage of the 2004 Olympic Games,ap the logic of sport classification in feminist sport studies. My discussion is based on two strategies (Patton, 2003): first, I trace the history of the concept of ‘acceptable sport’ in feminist sport studies; and second, I examine possibilities for changing theoretical understandings of women’s s