scholarly journals The system of training canadian athletes for the Olympic Games

2018 ◽  
pp. 92-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Platonov ◽  
Yurii Pavlenko ◽  
Vladimir Tomashevskii

Objective. To analyze the system of training Canadian athletes for the Olympic Games. Methods. Analysis and generalization of scientific and documentary data. Results. The Federal Government and the Canadian Olympic Committee, national sports federations, sports training centers, provincial governments, and numerous sports organizations act as partners for the preparation athletes for the Olympic Games. The government agency Sport Canada implements its policies and takes part in shaping the Canadian sports system through these bodies. Legislative and political acts have been adopted, including position document Canadian Sport Policy, that contribute to continuous increasing of the government infl uence on the development of sports in Canada through the funding and monitoring mechanisms. The special program Own the Podium serves as a basis for the purposeful strategy of training Canadian athletes for the Olympic Games. Effective management structures have been established aimed at optimizing and focusing activities of public bodies, various sports organizations, and sponsors on the training of the strongest athletes, who are really capable of stepping onto the Olympic podium. An effective policy was developed and implemented to identify the challenges of Olympic preparation, effective training programs for athletes were created, monitoring was planned, critical problems for scientific research were identified, rapid introduction of scientific advances into practice was enabled along with the implementation of advanced world experience and advanced training coaches and other professionals. Conclusions. The formation and implementation of an effective system for training Canadian athletes for the Olympic Games were facilitated by: the positive attitude and support of the government for sports, physical education, and healthy lifestyle of the population; the intensive development of health enhancing physical culture and mass sports; the creation of a strong physical infrastructure; the introduction of rational organizational forms of training for top level athletes; substantial funding of Olympic preparation; and introduction of advanced technologies in all components of the training system.

Author(s):  
Cem Tınaz

This chapter examines Turkish sport policy with a particular emphasis on the period since 2002 when the tenure of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government began. Based on in-depth interviews with former Turkish sport ministers and other sport authorities, as well as a review of academic literature, government files, and press articles, this chapter concludes that a main focus of Turkish sports policy is gaining domestic and international prestige rather than increasing sports participation. While Turkey was unsuccessful in its bids for the Olympic Games, it could boast of several other accomplishments, including having hosted other high-profile international sporting events such as the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final, constructing football stadiums, and achieving elite sport success at international championships and the Olympic Games, with the naturalization of foreign-born athletes as a main driver. This chapter stresses the central role of the state, and the sport sector’s dependence on government subsidies since most financial resources come from the sports betting company Iddaa. It also argues that the government has failed to properly integrate sports with the education system, making school sports one of the most problematic areas of sport development in Turkey.


Author(s):  
Mikhail E. Komarov

В данной статье рассматривается актуальный вопрос расходов на организацию летних Олимпийских игр на предолимпийском этапе. В статье проводится анализ структуры расходов на рассматриваемом этапе на примере XXXII летних Олимпийских игр в Токио. Детально исследуется структура расходов на двух крупных подэтапах: подача заявки на проведение Игр и непосредственно организация Олимпиады, при этом отдельно выделяются расходы трёх основных групп: Международного олимпийского комитета (с фокусом на программе Олимпийской солидарности), условной группы бизнеса и условной группы государства. На первом подэтапе в условную группу государства входят Токийский муниципалитет, правительство Японии и Заявочный комитет Токио 2020, в то время как на автором рассматриваемом подэтапе место Заявочного комитета занимает учреждённый в 2014 г. после официального избрания Токио городом-организатором Организационный комитет Токио 2020. В рамках каждой из трёх основных групп приводятся конкретные проекты, проводится анализ статей расходов на их осуществление. Отдельно стоит выделить тот факт, что автор, являясь действующим сотрудником Организационного комитета Токио 2020, осуществляет детальное изучение проектов и статей расходов, зачастую не попадающих в поле зрения исследователей данной темы. Отдельно анализируются факторы и причины увеличения первоначального бюджета на организацию и проведение XXXII летних Олимпийских игр, в частности такие, как перенос соревнований по марафону и спортивной ходьбе из Токио в г. Саппоро, перенос Игр на 2021 г. в связи с угрозой распространения вируса COVID-19 и т.д. На основе имеющихся данных по состоянию на май 2020 г. выделяется ряд тенденций, связанных со статьями расходов отдельно взятых групп. Основываясь на данных проведённого исследования, автор делает вывод, что наибольшие расходы на предолимпийском этапе несёт условная группа государства, в рамках которой доли Токийского муниципалитета и Оргкомитета Токио 2020 условно равны. Ключевые слова: Олимпийские игры, Организационный комитет Токио 2020, структура расходов Олимпийских игр, Токийский муниципалитет, Заявочный комитет Токио 2020, Международный олимпийский комитет, экономика Олимпийских игр, предолимпийский этап, XXXII летние Олимпийские игры, программа Олимпийской солидарности. This article deals with the topical issue of the costs related to hosting the Olympic Games at the pre-Olympic stage. The article provides an analysis of the cost structure at this stage on the example of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo. The cost structure in two major sub-stages is studied in detail: bidding stage and the organizing stage, with the focus on the costs of three main groups: the International Olympic Committee (highlighting the Olympic Solidarity program), nominal business group and nominal state group. In the first sub-stage the nominal state group includes Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the government of Japan and the Tokyo 2020 Bidding Committee, while in the second sub-stage the Tokyo 2020 Bidding Committee is replaced by the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, established in 2014 after Tokyo was officially elected as the host city. Specific examples of the projects within each of the three main groups are indicated and the analysis of the costs related to their implementation is conducted. It is important to highlight the fact, that the author of the article, being the current employee of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, has carried out a detailed study of projects and cost items that frequently are not covered by other researchers of this issue. The factors and reasons for increased budget, compared with the initial one, for staging and holding the Games of the XXXII Olympiad are analyzed separately; particular emphasis has been put on the transfer of the marathon and race walk competition from Tokyo to Sapporo city and on the postponement of the Games till 2021 due to the threat of the COVID-19 virus spread, etc. Based on the available data as of May 2020, a number of trends related to the cost items of the main groups are indicated. Based on the materials of this article the author concludes that the largest expenses at the pre-Olympic stage are borne by the nominal group of state, within which the shares of Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee are conditionally equal. Keywords: Olympic Games, the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, Olympic Games cost structure, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Tokyo 2020 Bidding Committee, the International Olympic Committee, the economics of the Olympic Games, pre-Olympic stage, the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, Olympic Solidarity program.


Author(s):  
Liyan Jin ◽  
James J. Zhang

The objective of this chapter is to illustrate how Beijing has addressed its environmental issues to fulfill its “Green Olympics” promise. A general overview is first provided on how environmental protection has become an important part of the Olympic Games. Then, the chapter presents the extensive environmental efforts associated with hosting the Beijing Olympic Games, mainly focusing on such areas as air quality, energy, transportation, water environment, green coverage, solid waste, and environmental education. Finally, the chapter touches on the environmental impact of the Beijing Olympics from local residents' perspectives, illustrating that the Beijing Olympics provided a unique opportunity for the city to speed up its urban environmental reform. With a mandatory environmental policy and collective efforts involving the government, environmental agencies, and community groups, hosting a mega sport event can create a positive environmental legacy to the host city and its country.


2018 ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Iryna Boiko ◽  
Lidiia Radchenko

Objective: to examine the trends in establishment and development of the volunteer movement in the system of Olympic sport and to justify the ways to involve various segments of the Ukrainian population in volunteering. Methods. Analysis of specialized literature, documentary materials, and Internet resources, historical and logical analysis, structural and functional analysis, surveying, methods of mathematical statistics. Results and conclusions. The study identified the main trends that are inherent in the Olympic volunteer movement, in particular the important role of the latest computer technologies; an expanding of the range of functional responsibilities and an increase in the total number of people wishing to assist in the organization of the Olympic Games; an increase in the percentage of foreigners among volunteers of the event; a decrease in the mean age of volunteers; a strengthening of the rules for selecting and expanding the content of training programs for Olympic volunteers with each Olympic cycle. The areas of volunteers' activities at the Olympic Games were examined, in the framework of which it is appropriate to carry out their training: interaction with IOC, NOC, ISF; coordination of arrivals and departures; participation in ceremonies; assistance to the organization of doping control; provision of protocol services to officials; technological support; assistance to the work of media-centers; coordination of transportation services; assistance to the accreditation service; volunteering at the Olympic events; linguistic services; catering services. The promising ways for the development of volunteer activity in Ukraine as a component of the development of the Olympic movement were justified and their effectiveness was determined: creation of the sections on volunteer activities on sports organizations' websites; development and implementation of special educational programs; development of measures aimed at attracting people to volunteering; creation of volunteer training centers; inclusion of the topic “Sports and Olympic volunteering" into educational programs of educational institutions; coverage of sports volunteering issues in textbooks on physical education for educational institutions; carrying out the studies on the issues of sports volunteering in educational institutions; promotion of the volunteer movement in the media; establishing links between sports and volunteer organizations; introduction of the practice of engaging sports volunteers to other areas of voluntary assistance. Keywords: volunteer, volunteer at the Olympic games, the Olympic sport.


Author(s):  
Bernard Vere

Pierre de Coubertin was responsible for the founding of the modern Olympics. Its antique ideals were consecrated in a painting by his father, an artist of the French salon, who pictured modern sportsmen from Paris paying tribute to Athena. The fourth chapter analyses the most notorious visual artwork concerning the games, Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia. Promoted as a documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but enjoying state patronage from the fascist regime, the status of this film is highly contested in the fields of history and film studies. Here, it is argued that the film evinces attitudes not incompatible with, although not reducible to, Coubertin’s own conflicted views on modernity. This is contrasted with László Moholy-Nagy’s abortive project to film the same games, before a consideration of Gustav Klucis’ constructivist designs for the Soviet response to the Olympics, the Spartakiada, and other constructivist engagements with sport in light of the Soviet emphasis on fizkultura (physical culture).


1988 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 264-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stan Labanowich

By referring to criteria established by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for including sports in the Olympic Games and considering the maturation of the sports movement for the disabled, it is reasonable to conclude that certain sports reserved exclusively for the disabled can be made eligible for inclusion in the Olympic Games as medal events. A confounding factor in pursuit of inclusion in the Olympic Games is the uncritical willingness of the established international sports organizations for the disabled to amalgamate in order to communicate as a single voice with the IOC. Created in the process is a formal institutionalization of sports programs for the disabled. Despite invitations to stage demonstration events in recent Olympic Games, sports organizations have failed to take measures necessary to qualify for full integration into the Olympic movement. Reorganization is called for on the basis of versions of sports that would lend themselves to integration.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-159
Author(s):  
Molochko Anastasiia ◽  
Vysochina Nadiia

Introduction. The article examines the historical preconditions for the formation of female sports in the modern system of the international sports movement. Important historical events are analyzed and the key factors that have determined the development of female sports in the world and in Ukraine are identified. Aim is to determine the historical preconditions of formation and the place of female boxing in the modern conditions of the international sports movement. Material and methods: analysis of literature sources and Internet sites, expert surveys, pedagogical observation, content analysis, methods of mathematical statistics. The study is based on the analysis of literature sources, archival materials and opinions of experts on the problems of formation and development of female boxing in the world and in Ukraine. Results. It points to the long-term negative attitude of leading international sports organizations and the public to the idea of ​​developing and popularizing female boxing, including these competitions in the program of the Olympic Games of our time. The dynamics of an increase in the number of athletes and participating countries in international competitions in female boxing, a tendency to an increase in the number of weight categories in female boxing competitions at the Olympic Games are presented. The important problems that arise today in the process of female boxers’ training are analyzed and the key differences in the structure of their competitive activity in comparison with men are characterized. It is indicated that there is no need for scientific substantiation and development of a conceptual model for the development of female sports in the modern conditions of the international sports movement.


Author(s):  
Oleksandr Petrachkov ◽  
Nadiia Vysochina

Physical training is one of the main subjects of military training and immediately influences the level of combat efficiency of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AF), military bodies and law enforcement authorities. Ministry of Defense of Ukraine performs a systematic work on the improvements of military education with the aim of drawing it near to the training system of military member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The issue of physical training is mainly considered from the point of view of maintenance of the healthy lifestyle, development of individual physical qualities and special abilities, use of reserve physical and psychic capacities of a person. The study of the process of physical improvement and organizational issues of the physical training is given full consideration in papers of military experts. The objective – to consider the preconditions for creation and analyze the prospects for the development of academic and research Institute of physical culture and wellness technologies of the NDUU named after Ivan Cherniakhovskyi. Methods: analysis and generalization of scientific and methodological literature, Internet data. Results. The analysis has shown the state and prospects of the development of staff, scientific and methodological, material and technical facilities in the Military Academy (Odessa) and the Institute. Conclusions. It is possible to sum up that the expansion of the Institute will provide an opportunity for performing a coherent multilevel training of specialists in physical training and sport from the instructor – associate to a military expert of strategic-tactical level for the AF of Ukraine and other structures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Mateusz Rozmiarek ◽  
Adam Szabelski

The emigrants ethos may be related to physical culture. On the pages of the history of sport or Olympism we can find examples of many athletes who, motivated by different goals, chose their native countries. One of them was the desire to succeed and win the sports championship. It turns out that during the first Olympic Games such a trend was noticeable, although the subsequent games also confirm it. The topic, which has caused many problems in the past, should be considered from the perspective of two levels, emigration before gaining the planned achievement, as well as the decision to leave after achieving major victories. Examples confirming both variants in this article might be on the one hand the numerous cases of participants of the first Olympic Games (what was shown on the example of athletes participating in the I, the II and the III Olympics), and on the other the biography of the outstandingHungarian footballer Ferenc Puskás, who decided to emigrate for many years because of the internal situation in his country, and not the desire to profit or gain greater fame.


Author(s):  
N. Kharchenko

One of the social institutions in which children gain experience and develop healthy lifestyle skills are children's and youth NGOs and associations. Their activities are regulated by the Constitution of Ukraine, the Laws of Ukraine "On Extracurricular Education", "On Associations of Citizens", "On the Basic Principles of Youth Policy". By cooperating on a partnership basis with government agencies and institutions, social movements, children's organizations solve the most important problems of children, helping them in social adaptation, creating conditions for their socialization. One of the main tasks of children's public organizations and associations is to develop the skills of a healthy lifestyle as a platform for successful self-realization and self-realization of the child's personality. Physical culture and sports are an integral part of a child's harmonious development. The creation of sports organizations for children is conditioned by the needs of the present and the state policy on the development of physical culture and sports, care for the upbringing of a healthy younger generation. Such associations focus children on health care and promote a healthy lifestyle. Thus, healthy meaningful recreation and leisure becomes one of the most important areas of self-education of children and students. Free from strict regulations and obligations, children's public organizations and associations create ample opportunities for personal growth and physical development of the child, forming moral values, hardening the character, developing a responsible attitude to health and safety. Characterizing children's movement by areas of activity, we pay special attention to children's organizations of physical culture and sports. Such associations have the necessary potential for appropriate educational influences and are a space for the development of healthy lifestyle skills in children and students.


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