Research into the mental health of female sport match officials is scarce, despite verbal and physical abuse being commonplace. Twelve officiating male matches took part in semistructured interviews, investigating their experiences understanding health. Deductive thematic analysis identified four overarching themes: football environments; abuse, sexism, homophobia football; formal informal supp...

Squash is a racquet sport played in a similar style room as racquetball. In a squash match there are 2 players that alternate hitting a small, black, rubber ball. A complete match is played as best of 5 games, where each game is played to 11 points. Points are scored when a player fails to return a shot made by the opponent. The sport of squash is played in over 190 countries by millions of peo...

The external load of a team-sport athlete can be measured by tracking technologies, including global positioning systems (GPS), local positioning systems (LPS), and vision-based systems. These technologies allow for the calculation of displacement, velocity and acceleration during a match or training session. The accurate quantification of these variables is critical so that meaningful changes ...

Two commonly used constructs in sport psychology researches are aggression and sportsmanship. In the present research, we attempted to assess correlations between these two phenomena among male water polo players. The main objective was explore differences sport-specific positions of different aspects - physique, age, etc. considered. Furthermore, research sought demonstrate inverse relationshi...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of multiple games on exercise intensity during a world-class hockey tournament. METHODS 15 players (mean±SD age 27±4 y, stature 179±5 cm, body mass 77±5 kg, and estimated VO2 64.2±3.1 mL·kg(-1)·min(-1)) competing in the Champions Trophy (CT). Global-positioning systems assessed total distance (TD), low-speed activity (LSA; 0.1...

Objectives: To characterize the contents of emotions experienced by elite table tennis players during highstakesmatches and the situational elements that contribute to these experiences. Design: A four-case study. Method: Three top-level table tennis players from the French Men’s Table Tennis Team volunteered toparticipate in the study. Four matches were studied. Procedures involved: (a) videot...