Search Results - Olympic Review

Christoforou, A., Mansfield, L., Blair, R., Rhind, D.

Liang, W., Hou, Y., Liu, C., Ma, S., Zong, Y., Yan, X. “…BMX Freestyle, a newly recognized Olympic discipline, demands athletes perform intricate, high-intensity maneuvers during 60-s competitive runs. …”

Sandbakk, Ø., Tønnessen, E., Sandbakk, S. B., Losnegard, T., Seiler, S., Haugen, T. “…The aim of this study was to provide a synthesis of common features and sport-specific variations in best-practice training characteristics within Olympic endurance sports as described by world-class Norwegian coaches. …”

Vleck, V. “…Triathlon which involves sequential swimming, cycling, and running- made its Olympic debut as the opening event of the Sydney 2000 Games, only 19 years after first being recognised by the I.O.C. …”

Leonard-Hawkhead, B., McCaffrey, D., Heron, N. “…The management of concussion in sport is an important issue, and many international sporting bodies have published guidelines. In this review, literature is searched systematically in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA): Extension for Scoping Reviews for sports-related concussion assessment in Bicycle Motocross. …”

Descheemaeker, K., De Bosscher, V., Shibli, S. “…THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW In each sport, national sporting organisations (NSOs) attempt to optimise their talent development strategies to attain excellence at, for example, the Olympic Games. …”

Chu, M. P. “…Their administrations awarded cash, badges, and honorary titles to the medalists. Reviewing journalistic reports, key-players` memoirs, official documents, and scholarly works, Chu details the context in which the Olympic medal haul was leveraged for political change within the three regions and their relations with each other. …”

Haugen, T., Sandbakk, O., Seiler, S., Tonnessen, E. “…While the African runners live and train at high altitude (2000-2500m above sea level) most of the year, most lowland athletes apply relatively long altitude camps during the preparation period. Overall, this review offers unique insights into the training characteristics of world-class distance runners by integrating scientific literature and results-proven practice, providing a point of departure for future studies related to the training and development in the Olympic long-distance events. …”

Murphy, M., Polston, K., Carroll, M., Alm, J. “…Swimming is one of the most popular sports in the world with open-water swimming (OWS) gaining more and more prominence since being featured in the Federation Internationale De Natation World Aquatics Championships in 1992 and the Olympic Games in 2000. The aim of this review is to analyze the existing literature on heat injury in OWS. …”

Muniz-Pardos, B., Sutehall, S., Angeloudis, K., Guppy, F. M., Bosch, A., Pitsiladis, Y. “…The postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics provides a unique opportunity for reflection by the world of sport and time to commission an independent review to evaluate the impact of technology on the integrity of sporting competition. …”

Mallett, A., Bellinger, P., Derave, W., Osborne, M., Minahan, C. “…Nonetheless, age, height, and body mass remains the most readily available data of all athlete characteristics, supporting their contribution to the prediction of performance. This review presents the findings of previous studies over the last 50 years and offers new insights by examining data from swimmers competing at the 1968, 1992, and 2016 Olympic Games. …”

Hutchins, K. P. “…This was conducted through a review of original exercise thermoregulatory studies published in three major Sports Medicine databases (PubMed, Medline and SPORTDiscus) between 2010 and 2019. …”

Lambertz, H.

Nhamo, G., Dube, K., Chikodzi, D. “…This chapter recommends post-COVID-19 reviews of the sports industry and putting in place alternative future intervention measures for similar pandemics and other disasters.…”

Pozzi, F., Plummer, H. A., Shanley, A., Thigpen, C. A., Bauer, C., Wilson, M. L., Michener, L. A. “…Objective: To characterise whether preseason screening of shoulder range of motion (ROM) is associated with the risk of shoulder and elbow injuries in overhead athletes. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources: Six electronic databases up to 22 September 2018.Eligibility criteriaInclusion criteria were (1) overhead athletes from Olympic or college sports, (2) preseason measures of shoulder ROM, (3) tracked in-season injuries at the shoulder and elbow, and (4) prospective cohort design. …”

Hotfiel, T., Mayer, I., Huettel, M., Hoppe, M. W., Engelhardt, M., Lutter, C., Pöttgen, K., Heiss, R., Kastner, T., Grim, C. “…The fundamental change in Olympic triathlon races from a single to a multistart event is highly demanding in terms of recovery from and prevention of exercise-induced muscle injures. …”

Walsh, J. A. “…This short communication provides coaches and sports scientists a review of the literature detailing the negative effects of prior variable-cycling on running performance experienced among elite, short-course and Olympic distance triathletes; as well as discussing practical methods to minimise any negative impact of cycling on running performance. …”

“…This document went through an extensive two-year review process led by USA Swimming's National Age Group Development Committee and a number of prominent age group coaches and clubs throughout the country. …”

Ma, G., Tang, Q., Ni, D., Parsons, B.

Robertson, S., Mountjoy, M. “…Medical and nutritional considerations specific to artistic swimming are reviewed, and methods to help detect and manage RED-S are discussed. …”