The influx of refugees into Europe around 2015 has led to increasingly restrictive immigration policies and a rising political interest in using sport to promote such newcomers' state of health and integration into European communities. This perspective is echoed in both research and programmes that are often one-sided in focusing on refugees' sports participation in the receiving context, while their former experiences and specific interests in sport and physical activity are often neglected. Contributing with transnational and postcolonial perspectives, this article is based on a series of life history interviews with four newly arrived refugees who have taken up roles as volunteers in sports clubs in Denmark. Such trajectories are identified as bearing on their homeland experiences, while taking up volunteering also appears as an escape from their current position as 'Others'. Further, we discuss how newcomers may challenge dominant discourses on sports-specific volunteering and develop new hybrid forms of civic involvement.

CrossFit er en af de hurtigst voksende fitnessbevægelser i Danmark og kendetegnet ved udøvernes intense workouts samt den høje grad af interaktion mellem deltagerne. Grundet COVID-19 pandemien og de tilhørende restriktioner har det ikke været muligt for CrossFit udøvere at opretholde deres vante træningsrutiner. Med afsæt i Randall Collins’ teori om interaktionsritualer undersøger artiklen, hvordan CrossFit udøvere har oplevet de forandrede træningsmuligheder, som COVID-19 nedlukningen og de efterfølgende restriktioner medførte, samt hvilken indflydelse de nye træningssituationer har haft på CrossFit fællesskabets sammenhængskraft. Artiklen understreger den store betydning, som ansigt-til-ansigt relationer har for idrætsdeltagelse, der ikke kan erstattes af digitale træningsmuligheder.