Toward an explanation of continuous improvement in expert athletes: The role of consciousness in deliberate practice [PDF]
, 2015 In a body of research spanning three decades, Janet Starkes and her colleagues have produced a wealth of empirical evidence on the importance of deliberate practice in the development of elite performers.
Moran, Aidan, Toner, John
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Children or athletes? Best practice for safeguarding elite young athletes [PDF]
, 2008 This address explores the status confusion between “child” and “athlete” that arises in elite sport for young people and discuss some of the challenges that this presents to sport providers.
Brackenridge, CH
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Effective skill refinement: Focusing on process to ensure outcome [PDF]
, 2014 In contrast to the abundance of motor skill acquisition and performance research, there is a paucity of work which addresses how athletes with an already learnt and well-established skill may go about making a subtle change, or refinement, to that skill.
Carson, H.J.,, Collins, D.
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“It's unrealistic”: experiences of Swedish elite female ice hockey players considering parenthood
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingIntroductionThe number of elite female athletes combining athletic careers with mothering has increased during the last decades. Many mother-athletes return to an equal or an even better level of performance postpartum.
M. Bergström +4 more
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Towards the construction of an educational model for dual career parenting:the EMPATIA project [PDF]
, 2018 The European Union supports innovative transnational cooperation and practices between Member States on relevant issues in the field of sports, including a balanced combination of higher education and sporting careers of talented and elite athletes (dual
Ana, Rolo +24 more
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Emotional abuse in sport: A case study of trichotillomania in a prepubescent female gymnast [PDF]
, 2013 This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. Copyright @ 2013 Gervis M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use ...
Gervis, M, Godfrey, R
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Researching and enhancing athlete welfare: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of the Brunel International Research Network for Athlete Welfare (BIRNAW) 2013 [PDF]
, 2014 Copyright @ 2014 Brunel University. All rights reserved by the authors who assert their rights under the Berne Convention. Copyright rests with Brunel University London.
Brackenridge, C, Rhind, D
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Perceptions of parenting practices and psychological variables of elite and sub-elite youth athletes [PDF]
, 2019 Drawing from the model of parental involvement in sport, the overall purpose was to examine the associations of perceptions of parenting practices (encouragement, reinforcement, instruction, and role modeling) and athletes’ psychological variables (self ...
Calmeiro, Luis +4 more
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Study on Doping Prevention: A map of Legal, Regulatory and Prevention Practice Provisions in EU 28 [PDF]
, 2014 Historically, anti-doping efforts have focused on the detection and deterrence of doping in elite and competitive sport. There is, however, a growing concern that doping is occurring outside the organised sporting system; giving rise to the belief that ...
Backhouse, SH +13 more
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Is Competitive Elite Sport Really Morally Corrupt? [PDF]
, 2017 It has been argued that competitive elite sport both (i) reduces the humanity of athletes by turning them into beings whose sole value is determined in relation to others, and (ii) is motivated by a celebration of the genetically superior and humiliation
Ingthorsson, Rognvaldur
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