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Discourses of disability sport: Experiences of elite male and female athletes in Britain and Taiwan [PDF]
, 2005 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Disability sport has been a relatively under-researched area within the fields of both sport sociology and disability studies, in particular regarding ...
Huang, Chin-Ju
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Organisational culture and coach-athlete relationships: An ethnographic study of an elite rowing club [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis explores how coach-athlete relationships are influenced within the organisational culture of a rowing club.
Maitland, Alison
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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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Sports, 2022 Two methods for challenging the musculoskeletal and nervous systems to better exploit the stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) mechanism during plyometric training are reactive strength exercises and accentuated eccentric loading (AEL).
Micah Gross +3 more
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Turn Fast and Win: The Importance of Acyclic Phases in Top-Elite Female Swimmers
Sports, 2021 The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of start and turn performances on race times in top-elite female swimmers and provide benchmarks for all performance levels, all swimming strokes, and all race distances of the European Short-Course ...
Dennis-Peter Born +3 more
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Sports, 2021 Background: In football, annual age-group categorization leads to relative age effects (RAEs) in talent development. Given such trends, relative age may also associate with market values.
Michael Romann +3 more
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Researching British university sport initiations [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The study of sport initiations is in its infancy. So far, the North American-centric research has focussed on ‘exposing and condemning’ morally unacceptable
Wintrup, Glen
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Coping with the effects of fear of failure in young elite athletes [PDF]
, 2009 Coping with stress is an important element in effective functioning at the elite level in sports, and fear of failure (FF) is an example of a stressor that athletes experience. Three issues underpin the present preliminary study. First, the prevalence of
Lavallee, D +5 more
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Medicina, 2021 Background and Objectives: This study aimed to compare the calculated running velocity at the anaerobic lactate threshold (cLTAn), determined by a mathematical model for metabolic simulation, with two established threshold concepts (onset of blood ...
Sanghyeon Ji +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In order to systematically evaluate perceptual anticipation between experts and non-experts for different kinds of combat sports, we needed to perform a comprehensive assessment.
Zhen Zhang +5 more
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