Lyssna: "Too many clubs focus on success."

Seven billion Swedish kronor - that's how much tax payers subsidise youth sports every year. Partly for the good of society, but also to achieve international sporting prowess. But are sports clubs discouraging children and young people to take up sport by putting too much pressure on them to succeed.

You might have thought that any support - financial or otherwise - for getting young people involved in sports would be welcome.

However, according to Tomas Peterson, sports researcher at Malmö University, with fewer children and young people playing organised sports than ten...