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As western countries have become increasingly diverse, education is often emphasized as one of the most important arenas for social integration. However, research within physical education over the past decades has highlighted how students with non-western backgrounds experience processes of 'othering', exclusion, and marginalization in the subject. In the Norwegian context, we have little knowledge about how these processes work within multi-ethnic PE lessons. In addition, scholars have pointed to the tendency of PE research on race/racism and ethnicity to focus on the minoritized 'other', while leaving out the complexity of the multi-ethnic encounter. By applying an intersectional lens, our aim is to investigate students' experiences in a multi-ethnic coeducational PE context. Specifically, we ask how the students' multiple identities may influence their experiences within PE, and what processes of inclusion and exclusion are revealed through their narratives. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in two PE classes, in an urban secondary school in Norway. Data for this article is drawn from one of the classes and consists of written field notes from observation of 26 PE lessons and semi-structured interviews with 11 students. Selection criteria for the interviews were based on gender, ethnic background, visible skills, and attitudes expressed towards the subject, as well as students belonging to different social groupings within the class. Data were analyzed using thematic narrative analysis. In the article, three students' narratives are discussed. The findings indicate that, while the multi-ethnic learning context is experienced as an arena in which to develop social relations across cultural differences, the students' stories also reveal how ethnic and cultural differences cause tensions in relation to students' interaction during activities and in the changing room. In these tensions, power relations embedded across students' ethnic, gender, and class identities become manifest.

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The present study explores Norwegian female and male elite wrestlers' perceptions of media coverage of wrestling and of themselves as athletes. In-depth interviews were conducted with four female and four male elite wrestlers. Data analysis revealed that the wrestlers experienced media attention as limited and gender stereotyped, with a dominant focus on hegemonic masculinity. In addition, the wrestlers perceived that media coverage distorted their sport performance by focusing on sensational aspects and scandals rather than on actual performances and results. Some of the athletes' descriptions of representations in the sports media and commercial television illustrated that, in their perception, they were viewed more as media clowns than as serious athletes.La présente étude explore les perceptions des lutteuses et lutteurs d'élite de la Norvège en ce qui a trait à la couverture médiatique de la lutte et d'eux-mêmes, comme athlètes. Des entrevues en profondeur ont été réalisées auprès de quatre lutteurs et quatre lutteuses. Les résultats de l'analyse de données sont à l'effet que les lutteurs et lutteuses ont perçu recevoir une attention limitée de la part des média ainsi qu'une couverture médiatique stéréotypée selon le genre, avec une prédominance de la masculinité hégémonique. En plus, les athlètes ont senti que les médias déformaient leur performance sportive en se centrant sur des aspects sensationnels et sur des scandales plutôt que sur les performances et résultats réels. Quelques-unes de leurs descriptions des représentations dans les médias sportifs et à la télévision commerciale illustrent qu'ils et elles étaient vus davantage en tant que clowns médiatiques qu'en tant qu'athlètes sérieux.

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