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Language games and blurry terminology: Can clarity enhance athlete development?
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023 This perspective focuses on the need for researchers and practitioners to carefully consider the clarity and consistency of their language in the context of athlete development.
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Annual Athlete Turnover of 36% in Olympic Talent Promotion Programs: A Meta-analysis [PDF]
Sports Medicine - OpenBackground Across the world, many national sport systems make extensive strategic investments in talent promotion programs (TPPs). The most common TPPs include youth sport academies and sport federations’ junior squads. The central idea of TPPs is (1) to
Arne Güllich, Michael Barth
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The role of personality traits in athlete selection: A systematic review
Acta PsychologicaBackground: Personality traits are increasingly used in athlete selection, yet their predictive validity varies across sports, levels, and cultural contexts.
Jiaxin Xu, Fengwei Hao
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A framework for test measurement selection in athlete physical preparation
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingPreparing athletes for competition requires the diagnosis and monitoring of relevant physical qualities (e.g., strength, power, speed, endurance characteristics).
Lachlan P. James +4 more
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Empowering coaching in youth basketball: the balancing mechanism between coaching authority and athlete autonomy [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyObjectiveIn training practices, ingrained power dynamics between coaches and athletes often hinder the adoption of an “athlete-centered” approach, leading to diminished efficiency in sports training.
Junmin Zhang +5 more
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Machine learning applications in sport: a scoping review [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyMachine learning (ML) applications continue to grow in popularity across the sport industry, offering new opportunities for performance enhancement, injury prevention, and decision-making.
Antonia Cattle +4 more
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Storm Clouds on the Horizon: On the Emerging Need to Tighten Selection Policies
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2021 Athlete selection is fundamental in elite sport, occurring regularly throughout an athlete's development. Research in this area reveals the accuracy of these decisions is questionable in even the most elite sport environments and athletes are ...
Kathryn Johnston, Lou Farah, Joe Baker
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Motriz: Revista de Educacao Fisica, 2021 Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative age effect and the age of peak performance of women's football players who participated in the Olympic Games from 1996 to 2016.
Júlia Barreira +2 more
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2021 Despite rapid increases in research on talent identification and development in able-bodied sports, there remains limited knowledge regarding how talent is identified and developed in Paralympic contexts.
Nima Dehghansai +3 more
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Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2022 The effective leadership of, and within, sports teams has consistently been highlighted to be an important factor impacting upon a range of outcomes including team performance, and team functioning.
Isabel Coker +2 more
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