Routes to sporting excellence in the UK Flashcards
What is the routes to sporting excellence triangle?
- EXCELLENCE - national/international level (coaching and sport science)
- PERFORMANCE - county/regional participation (competition)
- PARTICIPATION - recreational involvement (fun)
- FOUNDATION - intro to sport (1st attempt)
What are the key factors for successful talent identification?
- widespread testing
- high quality systems
- variety of testing
- database of information to allow for sharing across sports
- coordinated testing
- good competition systems to scout from
What are the advantages of the talent ID system?
- those identified make rapid progression
- get relevant sporting experiences to their talents from a young age
- more success/medal winners
- better use of NGB funding once selected
- widens talent pool in minority sports
What are the disadvantages of the talent ID system?
- will always miss people
- experiences coaches ‘eye’ could be better than quantitative tests in some sports
- testing requires extensive funding
- children could be overtrained and limits their options from a young age
What does UK Sport do?
Invests National Lottery Funds and income from government to maximise performance of UK athletes.
According to UK Sport how is success measured?
By number of medals won and number of medallists developed
What does UK Sport invest 70% of its income into?
- national governing bodies to allow them to provide world class programmes
- funding directly to athletes through the athlete performance award
What does UK Sport help to do?
- identify talent
- support athletes lifestyle
- support athletes coaching
- support through research, sports, science and medicine (via English Institute of Sport)
- provide a world class programme or pathway to success
What does the world class podium potential programme do?
Supports athletes with potential to win a medal at the subsequence Olympic games (e.g. 8 years)
What does the world class podium programme do?
Supports athletes with potential to win a medal at the next Olympic game (e.g. 4 years)
What are national insititues?
Each country that makes up the UK has its own national institute of sport.
Run by UK Sport with several of the organisations in each home country specialising in different Olympic sports
What do national institutes of sport do?
- provide world class facilities to train in
- physiological and psychological sports science support
- medical support for injury and illness
- run talent ID processes
- complete research into new sporting technology
- work with coaches and administrations to improve athlete performance
How do schools contribute to elite sporting success?
- compulsory PE (inclusive)
- learn a range of sports
- learn fundamental skills which are transferrable
- coaching and facility qualities varies
- government supplies funds to support school sport
- NGB’s can provide coaches to aid school sport
- extra-curricular competitive opportunities
- provide links to local clubs
- offers qualifications
- advanced level apprentices in sporting excellence (AASE) offer structured training for talented young athletes who show the potential of excellence in their sport
How do clubs contribute to elite sporting success?
- competition is frequent (leagues)
- specialist coaching
- specialist equipment and facilities
- some clubs can provide concessions
- possibility for talent identification/scouts
- can provide basic medial support
How do universities contribute to elite sporting success?
- combines performance with higher education study
- many offer sporting scholarships/bursaries
- high quality competition
- specialist and high quality facilities which can be linked to National Sports Institutes
- involved in sports science research
- the talent athlete scheme (TASS) and winning students scheme (WSS) are government funded sports programme delivered through a partnership between NGB’s and universities
