Discussing “a step across the pond: fleeing America”The participants whose stories were included in this vignette would have been regarded as either “expelled” or “exiled” by Magee and Sugden (2002), due to a variety of factors pushing/forcing them to leave their home country. Blodgett et al. (2014) previously suggested that cultural adaptation that to some extent was forced resulted in individuals deliberately adopting cultural norms of the host country to facilitate immediate sporting success.