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The Great British Medalists Project: A Review of Current Knowledge on the Development of the World’s Best Sporting Talent

The literature base regarding the development of sporting talent is extensive, and includes empirical articles, reviews, position papers, academic books, governing body documents, popular books, unpublished theses and anecdotal evidence, and contains numerous models of talent development. With such...

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Autores principales: Rees, Tim, Hardy, Lew, Güllich, Arne, Abernethy, Bruce, Côté, Jean, Woodman, Tim, Montgomery, Hugh, Laing, Stewart, Warr, Chelsea
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4963454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26842017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40279-016-0476-2
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author Rees, Tim
Hardy, Lew
Güllich, Arne
Abernethy, Bruce
Côté, Jean
Woodman, Tim
Montgomery, Hugh
Laing, Stewart
Warr, Chelsea
author_facet Rees, Tim
Hardy, Lew
Güllich, Arne
Abernethy, Bruce
Côté, Jean
Woodman, Tim
Montgomery, Hugh
Laing, Stewart
Warr, Chelsea
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description The literature base regarding the development of sporting talent is extensive, and includes empirical articles, reviews, position papers, academic books, governing body documents, popular books, unpublished theses and anecdotal evidence, and contains numerous models of talent development. With such a varied body of work, the task for researchers, practitioners and policy makers of generating a clear understanding of what is known and what is thought to be true regarding the development of sporting talent is particularly challenging. Drawing on a wide array of expertise, we address this challenge by avoiding adherence to any specific model or area and by providing a reasoned review across three key overarching topics: (a) the performer; (b) the environment; and (c) practice and training. Within each topic sub-section, we review and calibrate evidence by performance level of the samples. We then conclude each sub-section with a brief summary, a rating of the quality of evidence, a recommendation for practice and suggestions for future research. These serve to highlight both our current level of understanding and our level of confidence in providing practice recommendations, but also point to a need for future studies that could offer evidence regarding the complex interactions that almost certainly exist across domains.
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spelling pubmed-49634542016-08-10 The Great British Medalists Project: A Review of Current Knowledge on the Development of the World’s Best Sporting Talent Rees, Tim Hardy, Lew Güllich, Arne Abernethy, Bruce Côté, Jean Woodman, Tim Montgomery, Hugh Laing, Stewart Warr, Chelsea Sports Med Review Article The literature base regarding the development of sporting talent is extensive, and includes empirical articles, reviews, position papers, academic books, governing body documents, popular books, unpublished theses and anecdotal evidence, and contains numerous models of talent development. With such a varied body of work, the task for researchers, practitioners and policy makers of generating a clear understanding of what is known and what is thought to be true regarding the development of sporting talent is particularly challenging. Drawing on a wide array of expertise, we address this challenge by avoiding adherence to any specific model or area and by providing a reasoned review across three key overarching topics: (a) the performer; (b) the environment; and (c) practice and training. Within each topic sub-section, we review and calibrate evidence by performance level of the samples. We then conclude each sub-section with a brief summary, a rating of the quality of evidence, a recommendation for practice and suggestions for future research. These serve to highlight both our current level of understanding and our level of confidence in providing practice recommendations, but also point to a need for future studies that could offer evidence regarding the complex interactions that almost certainly exist across domains. Springer International Publishing 2016-02-03 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4963454/ /pubmed/26842017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40279-016-0476-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Rees, Tim
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Güllich, Arne
Abernethy, Bruce
Côté, Jean
Woodman, Tim
Montgomery, Hugh
Laing, Stewart
Warr, Chelsea
The Great British Medalists Project: A Review of Current Knowledge on the Development of the World’s Best Sporting Talent
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title_short The Great British Medalists Project: A Review of Current Knowledge on the Development of the World’s Best Sporting Talent
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4963454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26842017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40279-016-0476-2
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