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CONTENTS
PART I – HISTORY AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF SPORT
Sport at fascism’s disposal: the 1934 Football World Cup as a case of ideological propagation
and political enforcement
Apostolos Matsaridis, Vasileos Kaimakamis . . . 117
Art history in croatian cultural tourism
Damir Demonja . . . 121
The image and myth of baseball in the American culture in the light of W.P. Kinsella’s novel Shoeless Joe
and Phil Alden Robinson’s movie Field of Dreams
Karolina Ćwiklińska . . . 128
PART II – BIOLOGY AND EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY
Insulin sensitivity and blood lipid profile in women recreationally practicing horseback riding
Agnieszka Kaczmarek, Alicja Nowak, Łucja Pilaczyńska-Szcześniak . . . 135
Agility performance of adolescent Polish recreational skiers
Małgorzata Pasławska, Beata Wojtyczek, Christian Raschner . . . 139
PART III – CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
A multi-faceted assessment of sports motivation in relation to training effectiveness
in progressive recreational skiers
Małgorzata Walczak, Maciej Tomczak . . . 146
Relationships between emotional intelligence and psychological factors in physical education
Basil Siskos, Michalis Proios, Georgios Lykesas . . . 154