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An Examination of Training Load, Match Activities, and Health Problems in Norwegian Youth Elite Handball Players Over One Competitive Season

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2021
Talent development is integral to the policy and organizational practice of competitive sport, but has also been associated with excessive amounts of training and competition, and athlete injuries and illnesses.
Christian T. Bjørndal, Christian T. Bjørndal, Lena K. Bache-Mathiesen, Lena K. Bache-Mathiesen, Siv Gjesdal, Siv Gjesdal, Christine H. Moseid, Christine H. Moseid, Grethe Myklebust, Grethe Myklebust, Live S. Luteberget   +10 more
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Perfectionism and burnout in canoe polo and kayak slalom athletes: The mediating influence of validation and growth-seeking [PDF]

, 2010
Recent research suggests that validation-seeking and dimensions of perfectionism may be antecedents of athlete burnout. The present investigation examined whether validation and growth-seeking mediate the relationship between selforiented and socially ...
Appleton, PR, Hall, HK, Hill, AP, Murray, JJ   +3 more
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Co-Operative Design of a Coach Dashboard for Training Monitoring and Feedback

Sensors, 2022
Athlete development depends on many factors that need to be balanced by the coach. The amount of data collected grows with the development of sensor technology. To make data-informed decisions for training prescription of their athletes, coaches could be
Jos Goudsmit, Ruby T. A. Otter, Inge Stoter, Berry van Holland, Stephan van der Zwaard, Johan de Jong, Steven Vos   +6 more
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The Influence of Contextual Factors on the Relative Age Effect in Male International Rugby Union: The Impact of Sociocultural Influences and Playing Position

Children, 2022
The purpose of this study is not only to establish whether the relative age effect (RAE) exists in male international rugby union players, but also to investigate the impact of sociocultural influences (i.e., northern and southern hemispheres) and ...
Paolo Riccardo Brustio, Adam Leigh Kelly, Corrado Lupo, Alexandru Nicolae Ungureanu   +3 more
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Relative age effects in track-and-field: Identification and performance rebalancing

Frontiers in Physiology, 2023
Introduction: Relative Age Effect (RAE) consists of a biased distribution of the dates of birth in a same-age group.Objectives: This study aimed to investigate Relative Age Effect among French athletes in different track-and-field events, and propose a ...
Audrey Difernand, Audrey Difernand, Quentin De Larochelambert, Quentin De Larochelambert, Sébastien Homo, Florian Rousseau, Juliana Antero, Juliana Antero, Jean-François Toussaint, Jean-François Toussaint, Jean-François Toussaint, Adrien Sedeaud, Adrien Sedeaud   +12 more
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To Sample or to Specialise? Sport Participation Patterns of Youth Team Sport Male Players

Children, 2023
This study characterised the sport participation patterns of 546 male youth team sport players. A retrospective questionnaire was used to identify the sport starting age (general sports and main sport) and the quantity and type of sports undertaken ...
Patrícia Coutinho, Ana Ramos, José Afonso, Cristiana Bessa, João Ribeiro, Keith Davids, António M. Fonseca, Isabel Mesquita   +7 more
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Women and children first? Child abuse and child protection in sport [PDF]

, 2004
Child welfare and women's rights both feature prominently in contemporary debates on equal rights. Whereas gender equity has been a policy objective for the past thirty years in sport organizations, however, child abuse and protection have only recently
Brackenridge, CH
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The impact of parent-created motivational climate on adolescent athletes' perceptions of physical self-concept [PDF]

, 2007
This is a preliminary version of this article. The official published version can be obtained from the link below.Grounded in expectancy-value model (Eccles, 1993) and achievement goal theory (Nicholls, 1989), this study examined the perceived parental ...
Ames C., Babkes M.L., Bloom B.S., Brustad R.J., Brustad R.J., Côté J., Duda J.L., Eccles J.C., Fredericks J.A., Fredricks J.A., Gould D., Greendorfer S.L., Jowett S., Lewko J.H., Marsh H.W., Nicholls J.G., Nunnally J.C., Scanlan T.K., White S.A., White S.A.   +19 more
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Relative Age Effect is Modulated by Playing Position but is Not Related to Competitive Success in Elite Under-19 Handball Athletes

Sports, 2019
This study aimed to verify the occurrence of the relative age effect (RAE) in male elite young handball athletes according to the playing position and its association with team performance in a World Championship.
Fabiano S. Fonseca, Lucas S. Figueiredo, Petrus Gantois, Dalton de Lima-Junior, Leonardo S. Fortes   +4 more
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Athlete Development, Athlete Rights and Athlete Welfare: A European Union Perspective [PDF]

The International Journal of the History of Sport, 2013
The issue of athlete ‘dual careers’ in elite sport and education or work has received increasing attention over recent years from a whole range of stakeholders. In particular, the European Commission has engaged in research and dialogue with a range of stakeholders over the past decade, fuelled in part by the development of a ‘soft’ competence in sport
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