While colonization as policy is formally a historic phenomenon in Norway and elsewhere, many former structures of state organization – including their relationship to sport – remain under post-colonial conditions. This paper is concerned with how the Norwegian government contributes to creating a situation, which includes the Norwegian sports confederation (NIF) but excludes the indigenous people Sámi’s sports organisation. Based on existing data and literature, we analyse how the state favours NIF through a chain of legitimating acts. Thus, sport is a preserve of colonization, where a one-sided legitimation parallels a de-legitimation of the overarching sport policy goal of sport-for-all. However, there are signs of change whereby actors are challenging NIF’s monopoly and ‘older’ state-sport regimes.

尽管将殖民主义作为政策在挪威和其他地区已成为历史性现象，但许多以前的国家组织结构（包括与体育的关系）仍处于后殖民时期的条件下。本文关注的是挪威政府如何为创造一种局势做出贡献，其中包括挪威体育联合会（NIF），但不包括萨米土著人民的体育组织。基于现有数据和文献，我们分析了国家如何通过一系列合法行为来支持NIF。因此，体育是殖民化的保留，在这种情况下，单方面的合法性与全民体育的总体体育政策目标的取消合法性平行。但是，有迹象表明，参与者正在挑战NIF的垄断和“较旧”的国家体育体制。