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- Barker-Ruchti, Natalie, 1971, et al.
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“Gymnasts Are Like Wine, They Get Better With Age”: Becoming and Developing Adult Women’s Artistic Gymnasts
- 2017
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Ingår i: Quest. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0033-6297 .- 1543-2750. ; 69:3, s. 348-365
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Women’s artistic gymnastics is commonly understood to require early entrance and intense training during childhood. Most gymnasts retire before reaching adulthood. In recent years, the gymnast population at the highest level has “aged.” In this article, we adopt a socio-pedagogical perspective to explore the training contexts, pubertal development, and associated learning 10 older elite gymnasts reported. We develop a cultural perspective of gymnast development and show that transitioning through puberty allowed the gymnasts to extend their careers. Support from their coaches and parents, self-reflective time, and genetic predispositions facilitated the transitioning. Through this, gymnasts gained control over self, body, relationships, and performance. In conclusion, we provide implications for gymnast development practice.
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- Barker-Ruchti, Natalie, 1971-, et al.
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Producing success : A critical analysis of athlete development governance in six countries
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. - : Routledge. - 1940-6940 .- 1940-6959. ; 10:2, s. 215-234
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to analyse and compare athlete development governance in Australia, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland. We adopt a Foucauldian framework to theorise athlete development governance as shaped by and based on distinct ‘government mentalities’ and ‘modes of governance’. Qualitative procedures were used to collect and analyse 58 documents related to the 6 countries’ athlete development governance and to conduct 14 informal interviews with national elite sport system experts. Our results confirm other scholars’ findings that sport governance is moving towards managerialist government mentalities. Specific modes of governance that are being implemented to systematise athlete development include targeted forms of funding and the modelling of athlete development. However, the results also highlight how athlete development governance is a site of negotiation, arising from (a) historical events, (b) sociopolitical contexts, (c) financial conditions, (d) government mentalities and (e) sport science knowledge. Our examination demonstrates how these factors not only problematise athlete development governance but also allow for distinctive local athlete development government discursivities and/or sport-specific adjustments such as less result-driven and more holistic interpretations of athlete development. We conclude by outlining implications intended to support stakeholders’ (e.g. coaches’, sport directors’) engagement in conceptualising, implementing and/or revising athlete development frameworks.
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- Cervin, Georgia, et al.
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Growing up and speaking out: Female gymnasts' rights in an ageing sport
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Ingår i: Annals of Leisure Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1174-5398 .- 2159-6816. ; 20:3, s. 317-330
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This research examines the experiences of ‘older’ elite gymnasts competing in Women's Artistic Gymnastics in Australia, through the framework of athlete rights. Using a qualitative approach interviews were conducted with elite or former elite gymnasts who were at least 20 years old during their active career, and coaches and judges who worked with such athletes. This paper focuses on three key themes that emerged from the data. First was the relationship with the maturing body, which, combined with new coach policies toward athlete health, lessened gymnasts' risk of abuse in the form of weight control. Second, the changing coach–athlete relationship prolonged careers, although gymnasts had to demand their rights as adults. Finally, financial support provided a basis for continued participation for some, while others were excluded through economic discrimination. Such research should guide coaches and federations towards best practice when working with (adult) athletes.
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- Gerdin, Göran, 1980-
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Coaching's Urgent Need : Addressing Coaches' Abuse of Power
- 2024
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Ingår i: <em></em>The Routledge Handbook of Coach Development in Sport. - : Routledge. - 9781003160939
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter brings together seven critical coaching scholars all of whom have studied various abuses of power perpetrated by sports coaches and the impact this can have on athletes’ health and well-being, not to mention their performance potential. The chapter opens with some introductory comments from the first author concerning the important role that coach developers can play in equipping coaches to be able to address this urgent matter. This is followed by commentaries from the remaining authors who each take a different approach to address the central issue at hand: how coaching can become a more ethical practice with the support of coach developers who are cognizant and concerned about curtailing the negative impact that coaches’ abuse of power can have on athletes’ experiences in sport. In the conclusion, the first author returns to offer some final comments concerning the possibilities for ensuring a more equitable distribution of power across the sport and coaching landscape.
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- Kerr, Roslyn, et al.
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Coming of age : Coaches transforming the pixie-style model of coaching in women's artistic gymnastics
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Ingår i: Sports Coaching Review. - : Routledge. - 2164-0629 .- 2164-0637. ; 8:1, s. 7-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Coaches and coach educators have recognised the difficulty of creating changes to traditional coaching practice. In this article, we draw on interviews with five successful coaches who, we argue, engaged in actively changing their gymnastics coaching practice through promoting alternative "games of truth" which challenged the authoritarian women's gymnastics coaching model. This alternative truth game included a focus on energy levels (over thinness) and a belief that older gymnasts can learn new skills and be successful, which led to adaptations of their coaching. We demonstrate how coaches' experiences of coaching older gymnasts and their observations of successful gymnasts' older ages and powerful physiques produced critical reflections of their former views, which led to the recognition of alternative truths. This article illustrates the possibility of coaches changing their coaching practices, although we found that coaches were motivated by success rather than athlete empowerment.
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- Kerr, Roslyn, et al.
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The Introduction
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of the History of Sport. - : Routledge. - 0952-3367 .- 1743-9035. ; 40:6-7, s. 553-555
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