2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 36: Elite Sport 3

8 Jun 2022, 15:30

Description

Chair: Jannika John
Room: 7E02, Building HZM Ground Floor

117. Child Labour, Sport Labour Revisited

Peter Donnelly

08/06/2022, 15:30

Studies on talent identification “the process of recognizing current participants with the potential to become elite players” (Williams & Reilly, 2000, p.658), has predominately focused upon on coaches identification practice (e.g., Cushion & Jones, 2006) or on finding out what qualities that can predict talent (e.g., Vaeyens et al., 2008), and especially with a focus on boys. To date,...

118. The consequences of COVID-19 measures on talented athletes in the Netherlands

Agnes Van Suijlekom

08/06/2022, 15:50

During the past two years the COVID-19 measures have had a major impact on the circumstances under which talented athletes could train and compete. This research focuses on the experiences of Dutch talented athletes during the COVID-19 crisis.
This study has a mixed-methods design. Athletes who have been designated as ‘talented’ by the Dutch Sports Association (NOC*NSF), were surveyed...

119. Talent identification from the elite football players perspective

Tor Söderström

08/06/2022, 16:10

Studies on talent identification “the process of recognizing current participants with the potential to become elite players” (Williams & Reilly, 2000, p.658), has predominately focused upon on coaches identification practice (e.g., Cushion & Jones, 2006) or on finding out what qualities that can predict talent (e.g., Vaeyens et al., 2008), and especially with a focus on boys. To date,...