Paper 2: Development of Elite Performers in Sport

Question 1

What are the 4 stages of the Sport Development Continuum?

Answer 1

• Foundation
• Participation
• Performance
• Excellence

Question 2

What is the foundation stage of the Sport Development Continuum?

Answer 2

Involves developing the motor skills which form the basis of many sporting movements

Question 3

What is the participation stage of the Sport Development Continuum?

Answer 3

Involves an individual taking part for enjoyment while displaying sporting competence

Question 4

What is the performance stage of the Sport Development Continuum?

Answer 4

Involves progressing to participating in competitions with a shift towards recognising the importance of winning

Question 5

What is the excellence stage of the Sport Development Continuum?

Answer 5

The elite level of sport, with those who reach this stage often representing their nation

Question 6

What personal factors help reach elite stage of sport development?

Answer 6

Personal factors alone require an individual that possesses a high level of sporting ability, determination, and access to high-quality coaching.

Question 7

What social factors affect progression in the sport development continuum?

Answer 7

Social factors including support from family and peers, and the social status of the athlete

Question 8

What cultural factors affect progression in the sport development continuum?

Answer 8

Cultural factors such as the perceived importance of a sport nationally, and number of high-quality facilities

Question 9

What is the sole purpose of UK sport?

Answer 9

UK sport distributes funding from the National Lottery, which is used to improve the existing programmes in place for talent and development.

Receives funding from the government to fund elite sport development.

Question 10

How does UK sport help education?

Answer 10

UK Sport supports those in higher education, increasing the number of those in education playing sports per week.

Aiming to lessen the number that drop out after leaving school and PE.

Question 11

What does UK Sport do for policies?

Answer 11

UK Sport enforces a standardised policy regarding scientific issues such as doping, sport science, and medicine.

This helps to provide a unified and structured approach to sport in the UK.

Anti-doping programmes

Endorses ethical behaviour

Organises major sporting events to be showcased in the UK.

Question 12

What does UK Sport do to improve the future of sport?

Answer 12

UK sport researches the scientific approach to training and coaching, enabling the best modern techniques to be implemented.

Question 13

What 3 programmes does UK Sport run to promote sporting participation and quality?

Answer 13

• World class performance programme
• Gold event series
• Talent Identification and development

Question 14

What is the World Class Performance Programme?

Answer 14

Provides funding to improve the quality of coaching, medical and technological support, as well as developing sport science services.

Support athletes by contributing to their cost of living.

Question 15

Who funds the World Class Performance Programme?

Answer 15

National Lottery

Question 16

What athletes does the World Class Performance Programme aim to support?

Answer 16

Athletes that are realistically aiming to win a medal at the next Olympic Games (4 years)

Athletes that are realistically aiming to win a medal within the next 2 Olympic Games (8 years)

Question 17

What is the Gold Event Series?

Answer 17

Funded by the National Lottery helps the UK host prestigious sporting events

• stimulates economic growth in domestic communities
• stimulate interest in participation by generating high-profile opportunities, and improving coverage of successful performances

Question 18

What is talent identification and development, and its four stages?

Answer 18

UK has talent recruitment programmes which enable it to become aware of highly talented young athletes within the UK.

Runs a number of tests to test numerous performance factors to select those with the most sporting potential.

Then assesses athletes in greater detail, offering sessions (screening and psychological help) to help develop their talent.

Then supports athletes through the use of modernised equipment and facilities, with excellent coaching to help develop their existing skills.

Question 19

What are the four British national institutes of sport?

Answer 19

• English Institute of Sport
• SportScotland Institute of Sport
• Welsh Institute of Sport
• Sports Institute Northern Ireland

Question 20

What services do national institutes of sport provide to aid the development of sporting excellence and talent?

Answer 20

• Nutritional support
• Psychological support
• Sport science
• High-quality coaching
• Stimulating an increase in participation rates of young people
• Sport medicine
• High-quality sporting facilities

Question 21

What are National Governing Bodies (NGBs)?

Answer 21

NGB are organisations that are set up to run a particular sport

• regulate sport
• ensure rules are adhered to throughout the different levels of the sport
• enforce fines and bans for broken rules
• increase participation rates at grass roots level

e.g.

F.A.

Badminton England

LTA

British Cycling

Question 22

What is the role of Sport England?

Answer 22

Address particular targets which are relevant to different sports

• provision of funding to help support the sport
• increase awareness to increase participation rates
• improve quality of the grass roots level of each sport
• improve equal opportunities