the aim of this study was to evaluate the development priorities and strategies of judo championship in iran from experts' viewpoints. statistical population consisted of all experts of this field including adult national judokas, coaches, board of directors and superior managers of judo federation (n=60) and the available sample consisted of 40 subjects. a researcher-made questionnaire wa...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the injury patterns among competitive curlers. METHODS Participants at two curling championship events were asked to complete injury history questionnaires. RESULTS 76 curlers (39%) participated; 79% of these reported curling related musculoskeletal pain, most commonly involving the knee (54%), back (33%), and shoulder (20%). Sweeping and delivering the stone were m...

Medical observations are reported from an eight-day world championship breath-hold diving competition involving 57 participants. The deepest dive was to 75 metres, and the longest breath-hold time exceeded 9 minutes. There were 35 diving-related adverse events witnessed or reported, including transient loss of motor control due to hypoxia, syncope during ascent, hemoptysis, and pulmonary edema....

Availability of small amount of data is a major barrier that challenges data mining methods in some applications. To overcome the low accuracy problem, due to system training, we propose a novel hybrid and deterministic approach and test it on rowing championship data. Rowing is a world championship and Olympic sport which requires strategic planning. For rowers to become medallists, they need ...

Our aim in this study was to analyze: (i) the presence of relative age effect (RAE) on Brazilian elite female futsal athletes according their team’s final position National Championship, and (ii) relationship between RAE athletes’ tactical individual performance. Participants were 77 that competed 2021 Championship. Data included dates birth aggrupation by quartiles (Q1-Q4), performance indicat...