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Research Article

Gatekeepers, agency and rhetoric: an academic’s reflexive ethnography of ‘doing’ a (failed) adaptive CrossFit project

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Pages 612-630 | Received 16 Nov 2018, Accepted 16 Jul 2019, Published online: 26 Jul 2019

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