the purpose of this research was to study the organizational justice factors (distributive justice of tasks, distributive justice of rewards, procedural justice, interpersonal justice, informational justice) in national olympic and paralympics academy (nopa). statistical population of this research included all employees of nopa and the statistical sample equaled the statistical population (n=5...

The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between job stress and organizational commitment in National Olympic and Paralympic Academy (NOPA) employees. Statistical population of this research included all employees (full time) of NOPA and statistical sample was equal to the statistical population (n=59). Job stress questionnaire (JSQ) and organizational commitment questionnaire...

The Olympic flame and torch are significant symbols of the Olympic Games and are important in linking the general public with the festival. They are internationally recognized symbols, particularly important at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. “It is through the opening and closing ceremonies and the torch relay that the Olympiad must distinguish itself from another series of world champions...

T he paper uses Heckman model to examine the statistical importance of over 140 independent variables on the Olympic performance of all countries participating in the Summer Olympic Games from Sydney 2000 to Rio 2016. We find that countries which export more products have a higher likelihood of winning an Olympic medal than their counterparts exporting fewer products, and explain why...

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...

THE SYDNEY 2000 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES By the time the Olympic Games began, over 11,300 athletes and 5,100 officials from 200 countries had arrived in Sydney. Over the Games period, a succession of mass gatherings took place, including the Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies. The latter event saw 110,000 spectators and thousands of athletes at Stadium Australia, and an estimated 1,000,...

this study, which is a strategic study with a mixed research approach aimed to identify obstacles facing the academies of iranian basketball federation. the population comprises board of directors and committees responsible for education and talent spotting association, academy administrators, physical education instructors, qualified experts, professors, coaches, referees and heads of delegati...

Kardiologia Polska Copyright © Polskie Towarzystwo Kardiologiczne 2016 Hubert Krysztofiak, MD, PhD is the Head of the National Centre for Sports Medicine and an investigator at the Mossakowski Medical Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences. He is responsible for the medical care for Olympians. An important part of his activity is screening for, and management of, medical conditions that ...

Prior to the late 1960s, Canadian Olympic teams did not consistently include a physician or a health care team. The thirty-six medical personnel accompanying Canada’s 265 athletes at the 2004 Olympics games in Athens represent the growth of the sports medicine field in both Canada and at the Olympic games. This paper chronicles and analyzes the changing composition of the Canadian Olympic teams...