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Starting and Specialisation Ages of Elite Athletes across Olympic Sports: An International Cross-sectional Study Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Veerle De Bosscher, Kari Descheemaeker
Talent development models are the frameworks that guide sports stakeholders in developing potential athletes, within which early specialisation and diversification remain contradictory strategies. This paper presents new insights into the starting and specialisation ages of world-class athletes in various Olympic sports. A total of 2,838 athletes from 13 nations and 44 Olympic sports were included in this study. The results show that world-class ...

Micro-determinants Of Athletes’ Motivation To Be A Role Model Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Veerle De Bosscher, Lynn Praet
Aim and Research Questions
The study’s general aim is to identify the micro-determinants of elite athletes’ motivation to
be a role model. It is tried to find an answer on the following research questions: (a) Are
athletes personally motivated to be a role model? (b) What are the reasons athletes are or are
not motivated to be a role model?, and (c) What are the determinants of elite athletes’
motivation to be ...

The logic behind the initiatives of national governing bodies in Flanders to improve organised youth sport Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Margot Ricour, Veerle De Bosscher, Simon Shibli

Regular involvement in organised youth sport boosts the likelihood of lifelong sport participation. However, increasing dropout rates in sport clubs and alarming levels of young people not meeting physical activity guidelines may suggest that the organised sport sector’s efforts have been insufficient to date. This situation calls for evaluation of the applicable youth sport policy to determine how organised youth sport is intended to operate ...

Socioeconomic variables and historical performance, the influences in the Olympic success at a sport-specific level Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Leandro Mazzei, J Barreira, G.K. Yamanaka, Maria Tereza Ter Bohme, Veerle De Bosscher
Background. The influence of socioeconomic variables on sporting success has been frequently presented in the literature. How-
ever, most of the studies on this topic have linked all sports rather than the specificities of individual sports.

Problem and Aim. Analyzing the influence of the socioeconomic and historical results of past World Championships and Olym-
pic Games countries’ performance at the Olympic Games, ...

Sports participation during a lockdown. How COVID-19 changed the sports frequency and motivation of participants in club, event, and online sports Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven Ghent University

Erik Thibaut, Bram Constandt, Veerle De Bosscher, Annick Willem, Margot Ricour, Jeroen Scheerder

The impact of the COVID-19 crisis and its related measures on how people practice and experience leisure continues to be significant. In the current study, a survey measuring sport participation during the third week of the first lockdown, that started on the 18th of March 2020 and has been gradually loosened as of the 18th of April 2020, was carried out among 13,515 Flemish citizens. Through a canonical correlation analysis, four clusters of ...

Sponsorship eras in the English Premier League: changing industries and globalization between 1992 and 2021 Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Remco Beek, Inge Derom
The English Premier League, the elite division of association football (soccer) in England, exploited commercial opportunities and market growth since its rebranding in 1992. The companies involved in professional football sponsorships represented a variety of industries and origins. How substantial did these representations fluctuate to indicate a periodization of sponsorship eras? This paper provides a systematic and longitudinal review of ...

Stakeholders’ perceptions of athletic career pathways in Paralympic sport: from participation to excellence Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Jacqueline Martins Patatas, Veerle De Bosscher, Inge Derom, C. Wrinckler
Athlete development in parasport is a complex domain. Evidence on
the developmental trajectories of para-athletes is necessary to examine
the critical determinants of specific para-athlete development models.
Underpinned by the existing athlete development models to gather
insights into the different developmental phases, this study explored
how athletic career pathways in parasport are developed by identifying ...

High-performance Sport Systems: Current Developments and Future Challenges Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Jan-Willem Van der Roest, Veerle De Bosscher
A growing number of nations have started to invest in high-performance sport, which has resulted in an intensifying 'global sporting arms race'. As a result, it is expected that nations will face higher costs to maintain or increase success in the future. In this chapter, we review literature on high-performance systems to identify key characteristics of high-performance sport policy. We then turn to developments in these policies in the last ...

Contextual factors influencing the South African elite sporting system Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven

Shaundre Dwaylynn Jacobs, Veerle De Bosscher, Ranel Venter, Jacqueline Martins Patatas, Jeroen Scheerder

Elite sporting systems are often descriptions of established practices with little regard for national contexts. This paper examined the influence of contextual factors on the elite sporting system of South-Africa. The contextual factors were evaluated through the lens of systems theory (Components: Economic, social, political, legal, and technology). A maximum variation strategy was used to select experts from SA and varied European ...