#Sportskongres2025: back to the future for the Scandinavian Sports Medicine Congress!

Sportskongres is back, and the 2025 edition marks the beginning of a new decade. Ten years ago, the Danish Sports Medicine Congress Committee decided to internationalise the national congress to enhance the quality of the content and attract foreign speakers and participants. This initiative aimed to foster engagement and networking with Danish sports science and medicine. A key element of this new format, introduced in 2014, was that all presentations would be delivered in English, the global language of science. Significant changes often come with challenges, and the initial transition was no exception. Concerns were raised about a potential decline in Danish participants; however, these worries never materialised. Today, we not only see a much more global audience but also an increase in the number of Danish participants. Notably, the representation of Scandinavian participants has improved tremendously. The scientific contributions from our closest neighbours and allies are of such high quantity and quality that they have undoubtedly played a crucial role in establishing the congress’s reputation as one of the best sports medicine congresses worldwide. Due to the significant contributions from all the Scandinavian countries, Sportskongres (https://sportskongres.dk/) changed its official name to the Scandinavian Sports Medicine Congress in 2019.1 This name change honours the Scandinavian tradition of combining medicine and science in sports, which was previously celebrated every second year through a congress hosted in rotation among the Scandinavian countries from 1992 to 2018.1 Unfortunately, this tradition ended, but despite this initial setback, sports medicine in Scandinavia is today stronger than ever (figure 1).