This collection of articles on the development of sports museums worldwide aims to promote awareness of the importance of sporting heritage, and also to promote the idea of sports museums as potentially important tourist attractions. Sports museums may seem to be a relatively new concept, but ...
Publisher
Editions Touristiques Européennes, Paris, France
Citation
Cahiers Espaces, 2006, No.89, pp 1-158
There is continuing discussion in talent research on the best approach to developing sporting expertise through learning activities during early sport participation. Among other concepts, the specialized sampling model describes a pathway between early specialization and early sampling and yields...
Author(s)
Stegmann, P.; Sieghartsleitner, R.; Zuber, C.; Zibung, M.; Lenze, L.; Conzelmann, A.
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd, London, UK
Citation
International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 2021, 16, 3, pp 710-721
This paper addresses the 2018 Zürich E Prix as a sport event brand and the city of Zürich as a key co-creator. We applied a conceptual and exploratory approach in a service-dominant logic (SDL) and co-creation perspective. Next to analysing the motor sport event and relevant documents related to...
Author(s)
Bjerke, R.; Naess, H. E.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Sport & Tourism, 2021, 25, 2, pp 129-154
The article examines the activities and organizational structure of the Y+S movement in Switzerland, describing its two offices in the cantons of Waadt and Wallis. In Waadt, the office is concerned with the promotion of sport and gymnastics in schools and sports clubs, the organization of youth ...
Citation
Magglingen, 1997, 54, 9, pp 20-21
The international achievements and regular participation of Swiss 'wheelchair racers' are noteworthy. With 144 medals since 1976 in both individual and relay races, a group of 19 athletes has won 45% of the medals taken by Switzerland in all categories of the summer Paralympic Games. In this paper, ...
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 2018, 21, 4, pp 610-621
Background: Sport participation is an important component of a healthy lifestyle and is known to be more common among privileged individuals. However, few studies examined socio-demographic patterns of participation by type of activity. This study aims at quantifying socio-economic inequalities in ...
Author(s)
Richard, V.; Piumatti, G.; Pullen, N.; Lorthe, E.; Guessous, I.; Cantoreggi, N.; Stringhini, S.
Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd, London, UK
Citation
BMC Public Health, 2023, 23, 785, pp (28 April 2023)
Although sports heritage is increasingly recognized as a potential catalyst of tourism, heritage sporting events (HSEs) are still an emerging concept in the academic literature. Notions that associate sports events and heritage remain rare, and are usually analysed through the scope of nostalgia ...
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Sport & Tourism, 2017, 21, 2, pp 133-152
Using representative and geocoded data from the Swiss Household Panel and the Swiss Business Census, we estimate the effect of sports activity on health. OLS models show that sports activity significantly decreases overweight, sleeping problems, headaches, back problems, and perceived health...
Author(s)
Brechot, M.; Nüesch, S.; Franck, E.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Applied Economics, 2017, 49, 48, pp 4871-4884
The fact that potentially skilled, but biologically later-maturing athletes are less likely to be selected into talent development programmes (TDP) can represent a failure of Talent Identification (TID) in sports. To overcome maturation selection biases, maturation independent TID should be...
Author(s)
Lüdin, D.; Donath, L.; Cobley, S.; Mann, D.; Romann, M.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Sports Sciences, 2022, 40, 14, pp 1641-1647
The aim of this study was to compare the distances at various intensity in matches and small-sided games in elite-young soccer players using the metabolic power approach and running speed methods through fixed and individual speed zones. The second aim was to investigate the difference in high...
Author(s)
Darbellay, J.; Meylan, C. M. P.; Malatesta, D.
Publisher
Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Stuttgart, Germany
Citation
International Journal of Sports Medicine, 2020, 41, 12, pp 832-838