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Abandoning the performance narrative: Two women's stories of transition from professional sport [PDF]
, 2009 Despite its potential to illuminate psychological processes within socio-cultural contexts, examples of narrative research are rare in sport psychology. In this study, we employed an analysis of narrative to explore two women's stories of living in, and ...
Carless, D, Douglas, K
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Environmental attunement in health, sport and physical education
, 2021 This Special Issue on environmental attunement introduces seven papers that engage with a range of different insights and practices of nature-culture and embodied connections to place across health, sport and physical education.
Rosie Welch, N. Taylor, M. Gard
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Is the Asset Transfer of Public Leisure Facilities in England an Example of Associative Democracy?
Administrative Sciences, 2015 In England, public sports facilities and libraries provided by local government are being transferred to management and delivery by volunteers. The catalyst for this development has been reductions in local government budgets.
Geoff Nichols +3 more
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Safety, 2023 Working on elevated surfaces without prior experience can be dangerous, particularly for young people, who are significantly more at risk of developing fear and anxiety, which might lead to falls and fatalities.
Apiruck Wonghempoom +2 more
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Du sport associatif à la pratique de la remise en forme à Amsterdam
Métropoles, 2009 The sport practices of the homosexual population take place in various kinds of environments. It is nevertheless possible to distinguish two main sport/training environments that are associated to the gay community: the homosexual labelled sport clubs ...
Sylvain Ferez, Agnès Elling
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Healthy sport for healthy girls? The role of parents in preventing sexual abuse in sport. [PDF]
, 1998 Sexual abuse has only recently been recognised as a problem within sport (Brackenridge 1994) and, as yet, little is known about the contexts in which girls might be at greater or lesser risk of experiencing such crimes.
Brackenridge, CH
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For Geography and Sport, Sport Geography or Geography of Sport [PDF]
GeoSport for Society, 2014 Sport through its forms of expression and organization, through quantitative and qualitative features of the participants and spectators, through the fact that it is an inseparable part of daily life on Earth, by on-going local, regional, national or ...
Alexandru ILIEȘ +3 more
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Noncircular chainrings and pedal to crank interface in cycling: a literature review.
Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano, 2012 Noncircular chainrings and novel pedal to crank interfaces have been designed to optimize variables related to cycling performance (e.g. peak crank torque and efficiency), with conflicting results in terms of performance.
Rodrigo Rico Bini, Frederico Dagnese
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Assessing the sociology of sport: On sports mega-events and capitalist modernity [PDF]
, 2015 On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, one of the leading international scholars on sport and consumer culture, John Horne, considers the trajectory and challenges of research on sports mega-events and their place in capitalist modernity.
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Arthroscopy Techniques, 2015 Despite remaining a controversial diagnosis, piriformis syndrome continues to affect patients' quality of life with pain, sitting discomfort, and exercise intolerance.
Joshua S. Knudsen, M.B.Ch.B. +2 more
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