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 Catherine Palmer, Yannick Le Hénaff, Bonnet Christophe, François Féliu.  Drinking Stories Among Climbers and Older Athletes in France and  Australia. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 2020, ⟨10.1007/s41978-020-00058-z⟩. ⟨hal-02571993⟩ Despite stories about drinking being the focus of the research with  young people, holiday makers, stag tour participants and college  fraternities, stories of drinking among sportspeople have not featured  significantly in the scholarship, even though alcohol consumption is a  central feature in many aspects of sporting cultures and communities.  Drawing on qualitative interviews with climbers in France and older  athletes in Australia, the paper explores the ways in which drinking  stories operate to confer accomplishment of a physical task (such as  climbing) and to demarcate belonging to a membership group. In a  departure from the literature on drinking stories in contemporary  societies, these are not the themes of drinking to excess, transgression  or vulgarity that are found in drinking stories by other social groups.  When analysed together, however, they offer insights into the meanings  ascribed to the social exchanges in drinking and offer important  reminders of the consequences for drinking behaviours in sport. That  similar themes of drinking stories were found in different sporting and  geographical settings alerts us to the importance of drinking talk in  sport; its absence in the scholarship highlighting the need to better  understand the diversity of drinking in contemporary social life.                      