Success stories are a frequently investigated genre of shared cultural narratives. This paper will pay particular attention to
success stories in sports and investigate how young participants in selection camps in soccer and hockey are using a set of shared
narratives in order to produce their personal stories of success. By looking at narratives-in-interaction in this specific
context, these interviews are investigated as a narrative genre. The analysis shows how a set of shared narratives are used in
storylines in order to legitimize the personal story of success and how a number of dilemmatic spaces are addressed. This study
shows how personal success stories are intimately tied to “discursively shared narratives” and how this context constitutes a
specific narrative framework.
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