6.2 - Development of Elite Performers in Sport Flashcards
What are the three factors required to support progression from talent identification to an elite performer?
Personal factors
Social factors
Cultural factors
Name key personal factors and qualities necessary to develop as an elite performer?
- Commitment and self discipline
- Determination to succeed, as well as being single minded and mentally tough
- Highly motivated with the desire to succeed
- Willing to self-sacrifice
- High pain tolerance
- High levels of self confidence and self efficacy
- Highly skilled physically and/or naturally talented
- High level of physical fitness
Name key social and cultural factors necessary to develop as an elite performer?
- High socio-economic status
- Evidence of equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice within a sport and setting of equity targets
- High quality, supported education provision
- Structured levels of competition to progress through
- High levels of media coverage and role models to aspire to
What three organisations are focussed on talent identification and elite performer progression?
- UK Sport
- The English Institute of Sport (EIS)
- National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs)
Explain the purpose of UK Sport?
- It’s single focus is on developing high performance sport in the UK. Their aim is developing and implementing various strategies to increase sporting excellence in this country.
- They strategically invest and distribute National Lottery funding for elite performer development in order to maximise the performance of UK athletes in the Olympic and Paralympic Games
- They do this in two ways; provide the funding to NGBs or provide funding directly to the athletes
Explain the purpose of the National (English) Institute of Sport (EIS)?
- The EIS is a subsidiary of UK Sport.
- They receive a grant of £40 million over 4 years, this is used to provide services to NGBs.
- These services include; sport science, medical/medicine, performance lifestyle support, performance analysis.
- The aim is to ensure Britains top athletes have the best equipment, help, and technology available to them
What’s the memory tool for what the National Institute of Sport provides and define it?
SPORT
S - Sports science and sport medicine support
P - Performance lifestyle programmes are provided
O - Organisations work in partnership (e.g EIS and UK Sport)
R - Research and innovation
T - Top quality facilities and high level coaches are provided
What’s the memory tool to remember different ways NGBs try to provide equality of opportunities and define it?
PAMPER
P - Positive role models used to promote sport to target groups
A - Accessible facilities provided and developed for groups with a particular need
M - Meet government policies on sport and recreation
P - Policies put in place to target certain under-represented groups (ethnic minorities)
E - Employment of sport-specific Sport Development Officers (SDOs) to promote the sport to under-represented groups
R - Resources invested in inner city areas
Explain why organisations use talent identification programmes?
- It means all potential performers can be screened
- Performers can be directed to the sports most suited to their talents
- The development process can be accelerated as a result of the information gained
- Efficient use can be made of available funding for talent ID schemes
- The chances of producing medalists are improved
- They provide a coordinated approach between organisations such as NGBs, the EIS and UK Sport
What are the possible disadvantages of talent ID programmes?
- They may miss late developers
- They require high levels of funding
- They require large numbers to be tested to be of use
- There are no guarantees of success
- Many sports are in competition for the same talent pool; high profile sports may attract more performers or the best performers
What’s the memory tool for the key features of an effective talent ID programme?
TALENT
T - Testing facilities are of a high standard
A - Analysis of performers via a clear database
L - Links between organisations involved in talent ID ensure a coordinated approach
E - Equal opportunities for all to apply
N - National development squads/programmes exists to develop through
T - Talent spotting via high quality coaches
Define a performance pathway team?
A combination of EIS and UK sport expertise used to identify and develop world-class talent.
What are the two levels of the World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) and explain them?
Podium (designed to support athletes with realistic medal-winning capabilities at the next olympics/paralympics i.e maximum of 4 years away from the podium). Podium Potential (designed to support athletes whose performance suggests they have realistic medal-winning capabilities at subsequent Olympic/Paralympic games i.e maximum of eight years away from the podium)
Name disadvantages of using talent ID programmes?
- They may miss late developers
- They require high levels of funding
- They require large numbers to be tested to be of use
- There is no guarantee of success
- Many sports are in the same competition for the same talent pool
Name advantages of talent ID programmes?
- Means all potential performers can succeed
- Performance can be directed to the sports most suited to the talent
- The chances of producing medallists are improved
- Efficient use can be made available funding for talent ID schemes
