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Who cares about gladiators? An elite-sport-based concept of Sustainable Sport

Sport in Society, 2020
The aim of this study is to define the concept of sustainability as it applies to one of the most competitive and accelerated subsystem of human activity, elite sport (or professional sport) to construct a robust understanding of it. Based on qualitative
Attila Szathmári, T. Kocsis
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Sports Physicians and the Doping Crisis in Elite Sport

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 2002
The participation of sports physicians in the "doping" of athletes with banned drugs can be documented as far back as the 1890s. Concern about the ethics and safety of doping elite athletes appeared during the 1920s and 1930s as sport became an increasingly important form of popular culture.
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Stressors in elite sport: A coach perspective

Journal of Sports Sciences, 2008
We examined the varying performance and organizational stressors experienced by coaches who operate with elite athletes. Following interviews with eleven coaches, content analysis of the data revealed coaches to experience comparable numbers of performance and organizational stressors.
Thelwell, Richard, Weston, Neil, Greenlees, I., Hutchings, N.   +3 more
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Prevalence of antidepressants and biosimilars in elite sport [PDF]

Drug Testing and Analysis, 2009
AbstractThe use of prescribed antidepressants by athletes has not been restricted in human sports since 2003, after the antidepressants bupropion and amineptine were removed from the list of prohibited substances. Recent awareness of antidepressants has been stimulated by reports from the media concerning possible misuse of antidepressants among ...
Marc Machnik, Gerd Sigmund, Wilhelm Schänzer, Anja Koch, Mario Thevis   +4 more
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SPORT PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ELITE ATHLETE

European Journal of High Ability, 1990
Abstract Five key factors contribute to success in cognitive sport: technique, physical condition, psychological state, nutrition, and equipment. At the highest level, competitive pressures are as much psychological as physical, although attempts to describe the ideal personality for a competitive athlete have failed miserably.
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Stress and Injuries in Elite Sport

2016
The chapter begins with an overview of research on psychological risk factors, “predictors”, for injury outcome focusing on competitive and elite sport populations.
Urban Johnson, Ulrika Tranaeus, Andreas Ivarsson   +2 more
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The future of sex in elite sport

Nature, 2021
Sex has long been used to divide sporting competitions in the name of fairness, but are the current rules and enforcement practices fit for purpose? Sex has long been used to divide sporting competitions in the name of fairness, but are the current rules and enforcement practices fit for purpose?
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Elite athletes’ experiences of interpersonal violence in organized sport in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium

European Journal of Sport Science, 2020
Interpersonal violence in sport occurs in different forms, from emotional abuse, overtraining, bullying, physical aggression and pressuring to punishment and sexual abuse.
Jeannine Ohlert, T. Vertommen, Bettina Rulofs, T. Rau, M. Allroggen   +4 more
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Forecasting the Performance of Nations in Elite Sport

2015
The purpose of this chapter is to give an insight into how the performance of nations in elite sport can be forecast with what appears to be a reasonable degree of accuracy. This is not a 'get rich quick' scheme designed to encourage gambling. Rather it is concerned with looking at the effectiveness of nations at using the resources at their disposal ...
Shibli, S., De Bosscher, Veerle, Van Bottenburg, M., Bingham, J.   +3 more
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Health and Elite Sport

2014
Foreword (Bruce Kidd) Chapter 1. Sport and health of the high performance athlete: An introduction to the text (Parissa Safai, Jessica Fraser-Thomas and Joseph Baker) Part 1: Health and the developing elite athlete Chapter 2. Personal development and performance?
Jessica Fraser-Thomas, Parissa Safai, Joseph Baker   +2 more
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