88 research outputs found
Predicting the Evolution of Sports Federation Membership: An Important Tool to Asses National Governing Bodies’ Strategic Planning
No full textQuantifying the potential market of sports licenses is key in order for National Governing Bodies of sport (NGBs) to be able to design good strategic planning. We compared the classical methods of univariate prediction and the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) methods. Reliability of the available data was verified with the Time Series Regression with ARIMA Noise, Missing and Outliers (TRAMO) method, and the existence of a trend was verified using Daniel’s test. For the purposes of this study—the researches collected and analysed secondary data from a 40-year series in 45 sports in Spain covering a very long period of time in a variety of sport disciplines. The study shows that, with the available data, short-and mid-term forecasting is possible in a number of sports, but not in all of them. It also proves that Holt’s classical method of exponential smoothing is the one that yields best results. Golf, Basketball, Athletics and Hunting NGB show worrying prospects of decline levels and need an immediate change in the strategic plans. Other than for forecasting the evolution of athletes in the mid-term in order to improve strategic planning in NGBs, the present findings can be useful for public authorities to define their aid policies for NGBs, and they can also helpcompanies in the industry to anticipate market developments
La cobertura mediática de las mujeres deportistas con discapacidad. Análisis de la prensa diaria de cuatro países europeos durante los Juegos Paralímpicos de Sidney 2000
No full textData concerning mediatisation of the female athletes are showing that on the one hand, women are less represented than men and, on the other hand, their image is frequently sexualized. In addition, contrary to men, media often focuses on their social roles as mother, wife, etc, i.e. female athletes are frequently portrayed in scenes non related with the sport dimensions. It is also known that media treatment of disabled athletes is quite different from those of others athletes. But, which are the peculiarities concerning media treatment of female athletes with disabilities? In the present study a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the Paralympic Games in Sydney 2000 has taken place, including 108 articles from German, English, Spanish, and French newspapers. Our data shows that, contrary to what was expected, women with disabilities are not specially underrepresented compared to men; quantitatively there is no presence of a specific stigmatization. But a qualitative analysis of texts and photos shows that a stigmatization process is taking place through a more insidious form: the female Paralympic athletes are largely ?infantilised? and ?trivialized? (Jones, 1999) in the newspapers which cover the Paralympic Games
Media Guide: How to Cover the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (JAPANESE Version)
No full textThis guide is written in Japanese and is primarily aimed at professionals in the Japanese media so that they can promote a more inclusive image of people with impairment during Tokyo 2020 and beyond. Two U.K. based academics, Prof. Athanasios ‘Sakis’ Pappous from Bournemouth University and Dr. Ian Brittain from Coventry University, have joined forces and, with financial support from the Economic and Social Research Council (U.K) and the Japan Society for the promotion of Science (Japan) have produced this guide as part of the project ‘Building Japanese research capacity around disability studies and sport to positively impact he lives of people with disabilities - 2020 and beyond’. A previous version of this guide, led by Prof. Sakis Pappous has been written and used during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and can be consulted here https://kar.kent.ac.uk/64890/ and there is also a Portuguese version of it
Sportivate: a case study of sports policy implementation and impact on the sustainability of community physical activity programmes
No full textWith trends pointing toward shortcomings in delivering London 2012 legacy promises, a review was administered on research and policy from 2005 onwards to ascertain how sports policy can impact the delivery of sustainable community sport and physical activity programmes. A case study design was adopted and secondary data was obtained from Sport England’s Year 4 of national Sportivate data. These results were compared with aspects of government policy via the theoretical concept lenses of sustainability and policy implementation. Secondary data from Sport England for Year 4 (2014–15) of their Sportivate programme displays a boom in participation leading up to the Olympic Games, but plateaus following London 2012. In line with requirements issued by government policy, completed participants primarily consist of younger children. While findings display a closing gender gap in participation, the same cannot be said of sustainability measures in place for the Sportivate programme. With the prevalence of external factors impeding sustainable sports participation, voluntary sports organisations are advised to capitalise on partnership approach methods for delivering sport and physical activity. As participation retention decreased in Year 4, the theoretical concept of sustainability offers calls for a change in culture, despite policy implementation perspectives highlighting the synthesis of both top-down and bottom-up approaches. A centralised system creates greater emphasis on the “professionalization” of voluntary sports organisations, which seems to steer deliverers toward short-term impact rather than long-term goals. Recommendations suggest expanding collaborative measures between organisations to help facilitate sustainable participation after a funded physical activity programme has completed. Further research is recommended to further examine factors that influence the sustainable delivery of community sports and physical activity
Experts criticise media coverage of disabled athletes
No full textThis is a newspaper article concerning the talk that Dr. Pappous gave in the "Third international forum on children with special needs" at Shafallah Center in Qatar.Addressing a session on "Sports, social inclusion and mass media," Dr. Pappous highlighted that Sports events for the disabled have been covered by the media as feature stories with focus on the disability rather than the performance of the athletes
Breaking Ice: An In-depth Examination of China's Winter Sports Participation in the Wake of Beijing 2022
No full textIs there evidence from secondary data to suggest advancement towards Beijing 2022's objective of "Motivating 300 million individuals to engage in winter sports"? This study explored the Beijing 2022 sport participation legacy by adopting a quantitative approach with triangulation. The preliminary findings highlight the multifaceted and complex nature of evaluating the sport participation legacy goal of a Sport Mega Event (SME). The broad definition of the goal to "Motivate 300 million people to engage in winter sports," as well as the characteristics of the political mission's cultural and systemic context, were some of the factors that played an important role when trying to assess this target. Moreover, this paper revealed three crucial mechanisms trans-mitting the passion of winter sports from SME to mass participation legacy, through quantitatively examining the promised target. There were "Leveraging sports policy", "Provision of facilities accompanying the integration of sport and education", and "Cooperative stakeholders` alliance strengthened by media power and technology". We anticipate that this study will make a valuable contribution towards addressing the challenges posed by the broad and ambitious nature of Beijing 2022's goal, whilst facilitating further investigations on the transformative strategies
How to create sustainable winter sports participation legacy? a case study of Beijing 2022 winter sports participation legacy with critical realism ontology
No full textThe Olympic culture "Sport for All" (IOC, 2021b) propagates the shared vision of previous, present, and future hosts to increase sports participation. Evidence has been found in both academia and practice that hosting sports mega events (SME) has the potential to increase sports participation (A. Pappous, 2011; Weed et al., 2015) and facilitate sustainable development (Hindson et al., 1994; Hogan & Norton, 2000). Thus, it is important to learn from the past of the Olympic movement regardless of the geographical and cultural distances among host nations.
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics impressed the world by achieving the ambitious "300 million" goal (IOC, 2022). However, international scholars have questioned the origins and feasibility of this goal. Besides curiosity about the number, many researchers have turned their eyes to the strategies, programs, and legacy delivery mechanisms behind them.
Our dissertation satisfied these curiosities by creating a theoretical approach and examining the political promise and the legacy delivery process. Firstly, we developed an integrated framework by combining CR with the "Three-Source Model" (Liu & Jiang, 2016). With the conceptual model, triangulation, and the Qualitative Quantitative Mixed Method, we examined whether Beijing 2022 has achieved the goal of "Motivating 300 million individuals to engage in winter sports" through Study 1 and how it happened via Study 2.
In the discussion, we focused on what could different stakeholders of the preceding and future Olympic Games learn from Beijing 2022 in terms of social sustainability and revealed that the bilateral paths would facilitate both the pre-game legacy and the post-game legacy. For future research, we suggest launching future studies addressing social reality, the efficiency, and effectiveness of the legacy delivery, and supporting regional development and knowledge sharing/ transfer with the advanced sport governing concept of “Big Society”
Media Guide: How to Cover the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
No full textIn August 2021, the Paralympic Games, one of the greatest sporting events in the world, will take place in Tokyo. In order to promote a more inclusive and fairer coverage of sports for people with impairment, two U.K. based academics, Prof. Athanasios ‘Sakis’ Pappous from Bournemouth University and Dr. Ian Brittain from Coventry University, have joined forces and, with financial support from the Economic and Social Research Council (U.K) and the Japan Society for the promotion of Science (Japan) have produced this guide as part of the project ‘Building Japanese research capacity around disability studies and sport to positively impact he lives of people with disabilities - 2020 and beyond’. This guide is primarily aimed at professionals in the Japanese media so that they can promote a more inclusive image of people with impairment during Tokyo 2020 and beyond.The Games represent a unique opportunity to educatethe public on different types of impairment and how to combat stereotypes related to the question of impairment. The fact that the Games will be taking place in Japan with excellent media coverage, will allow for the promotion of positive images of the Paralympic athletes and of impairment generally. In other words, the media can contribute to raising the profile and recognition of Paralympic athletes, which will help all people with impairment to overcome the challenges they face in terms of accessibility and inclusion.</p
Actitudes explícitas e implícitas hacia la obesidad en estudiantes de Cultura Física (Explicit and Implicit Attitudes towards Obesity in Physical Education Students)
No full textNegative attitudes towards obese people constitute a risk factor for their participation in, and adherence to, programmes involving lifestyle changes. This work studied the attitudes of Physical Education students in Ecuador towards obesity. Their attitudes were compared by gender and semesters. The sample in this study consisted of 80 Physical Education students between 18 and 33 years old. Two questionnaires were given - the Anti- fat Attitudes Questionnaire, which measures explicit attitudes toward obesity in three subscales: dislike, fear of gaining weight and lack of willpower; and the Anti-fat Implicit Association Test: to measure implicit attitudes. The main results show evidence of negative explicit and implicit attitudes toward obesity across the study sample. Moreover, the results indicate that the female population has a greater fear of gaining weight than the male population. The year of studies was not found to be a distinctive factor for either implicit or explicit negative attitudes.Edda Lorenzo Bertheau*, Francisco Cruz-Quintana**, Athanasios Pappous*** y Jacqueline Schmidt Rio-Valle*
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