To cite: Engebretsen L, Soligard T, Steffen K, et al. Br J Sports Med Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bjsports-2013092380 ABSTRACT Background The Olympic Movement Medical Code encourages all stakeholders to ensure that sport is practised without danger to the health of the athletes. Systematic surveillance of injuries and illnesses is the foundation for devel...

Sport plays a major role in the lives of many people, both for active participation and as entertainment. Sport is now a huge nationally and internationally based industry. The desire to win has led some athletes to resort to the use of performance enhancing drugs. With huge financial rewards now available in some sports the pressure to excel has grown. Some have argued that drug use should be ...

OBJECTIVE To identify areas of priority and activity for international sportsfederations (IFs) with respect to athlete health and safety, and global health. Results serve to direct the work of the Association of Summer Olympic IF Medical and Scientific Consultative Group, the International Olympic Committee and to influence IFs' planning and priorities. METHODS The 28 IFs participating in the...

the aim of this paper was to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of talent identification in championship sport of i.r. iran and to examine its bottlenecks and challenges. for data collection, the documents and related literature were reviewed, council meetings were held and a researcher-made questionnaire and swot analysis were used. 256 subjects including 13 managers...

History records what happened in the past. Do you remember the 23rd Olympic Games in Los Angeles? Xu Haifeng, the Chinese athlete, won China’s first gold medal for shooting. Do you remember the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona? Zhang Shan, a female Chinese athlete, outperformed all male athletes and became the only female champion in the history of skeet shooting. Do you remember the 1996 Olympi...

Problem Statement: Slovak schools could participate in the educational program created by International Olympic Committee OVEP (Olympic Values Education Program). It is a of value education through values Olympism, which helps participants develop their positive moral and ethical qualities. The following themes, aimed at transmitting contemporized version principles, are basis program: joy effo...

In the fall of 2020, Congress enacted first substantive changes in governance Olympic Sports system over four decades. The new law, Empowering Olympic, Paralympic and Amateur Athletes Act, was passed wake sexual abuse scandals that rocked certain sport governing bodies. amending 1978 law grants power to decertify United States bodies, mandates greater athlete representation governance, increase...

We analyze the decision to participate and performance at the Modern Olympic Summer Games at the country level. We use an unbalanced panel of 118 countries over all 24 editions of the Summer Games since 1896. The main focus of the paper is on economic, geographic and demographic determinants of Olympic participation and success. We estimate the impact of income per capita, population size, home...

The strategic alignment allows coordinating objectives, processes, resources, personnel and critical factors in order to make decision making viable, addition, it aligning processes with the organization's strategy. objective of research is: evaluate between objectives Matanzas Provincial Sports Directorate. Tools such as: brainstorming, Kendall's Method, SWOT Matrix, Hierarchical Analytical Pr...