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Five World Wide Trends in Sport which you ignore at your peril.
Having visited more than 30 countries in four continents in the past few years and spent time with sports leaders, coaches, athletes, sponsors, sports scientists, sports academics, sports medicine practitioners, sports administrators, government funding agencies and other sports professionals in many of the world’s leading sports systems, five world wide trends in society
(and by extension in sport) have become very clear and are screaming so loud that they can no longer be ignored.
Ignore them at your peril. Read more
August 5, 2010 | 8 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, High Performance, Hockey, Lawn Bowls, Netball, Olympic Games, Olympics, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Shooting, Soccer, sport, Sports Management, Squash, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis, Track and Field, Triathlon, Weightlifting, Wrestling
Top Ten Talent I.D. Tips for High Performance Sport – The T.O.P. Approach
So much of the world’s high performance sports dollars (or Yens or Yuans or Euros or Pounds or Pesos or Rands depending on where you come from), time, energy, focus and attention is spent on three things:
- Talent identification;
- Talent recruitment;
- Talent development.
Or if you like, find them, sign them, refine them.
And most of the world has still got it wrong. There is a better way. Read more
July 13, 2010 | 10 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, High Performance, Hockey, Netball, Olympic Games, Olympics, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, sport, Sport and Parenting, sporting parents, Sports coaching, Sports Management, sports science, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon, Weightlifting, Wrestling
Football: The Beautiful Game is a Terrible Shame.
Every four years, us non football (soccer) people get excited, enthusiastic and ecstatic about the FIFA Football World Cup.
We get caught up by the nationalism, the marketing hype and the promises of the ”beautiful game” and being witness to the world’s biggest sporting event.
And, every four years, we walk away scratching our heads thinking “why haven’t they fixed the same problems they had four years earlier? ” Read more
July 6, 2010 | Comments Off
Tags: AFL, American Football, Coaching, Cricket, FIFA World Cup, Football, Football World Cup, High Performance, Netball, Olympic Games, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Sports Management, sports science
News Flash: Olympic Cycle Changed to Six Years.
News Flash, Lausanne, Switzerland. Here is the latest news.
The IOC today announced that effective immediately there will be two Olympic Cycles.
The first one, known from this date forward as the “Pretenders Cycle” will run on the traditional four year Olympic cycle.
The second cycle, announced today as the ”Contenders Cycle”, is a six year cycle. It is expected that the majority of Olympic medal winners will be using the new six year cycle.
Our Olympic reporter Wayne Goldsmith has more….. Read more
June 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
Tags: Archery, Athletics, Basketball, Boxing, Coach education, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, High Performance, Hockey, London 2012, Olympic Games, Olympics, Rugby, Shooting, Soccer, sport, Sports Management, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon, Weightlifting, Wrestling
