Carlos García-Martí is a lecturer from the Spanish Universidad Europea de Madrid, teaching Sports Sociology and Sports History. His research has focused on national identities and sport professional cultures, doping, media influence and historical sociology, specifically in the interrelation between coaching traditions, sports professional cultures, and national identities, working on topics such as sports’ mediatization process. He has published extensively in sports sociology and history peer reviewed journals and collaborated in several collective books. He is currently a member of the European Association for the Sociology of Sport. and the European Committee for Sports History and the