AS PE: Development of Competitive Sport - What is the question?
Elite sports systems
1. A2 Physical Education
Managing Elite Performance
The Former East Germany,
Australia and USA
2. The Former East Germany
Post World War II
1949 – 1990
Two Separate States
The German Democratic Republic
A large political push for sporting
excellence
A state with a population similar to London
finished second overall in the medal
standings at the 1976 Olympics
3. A talent identification programme was put
in place
Rigorous testing of primary children
Coaches, sport specialists and medical
staff monitored attainment
Potential talent attended child and youth
sport schools
Mainly Olympic disciplines
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4. The East German Sports Model
East German National Squad
National Sports Institute
State-run sports club
Annual Spartakiad
Sports boarding school
Primary School Talent ID
5. State Plan 1425 The Jenapharm Case
Strive for Olympic Athletes launched legal
success action against the
Systematic doping of pharmaceutical giants
young athletes
Each athlete had their Athletes claimed they
own doctor knowingly gave drugs
Forced to take Jenapharm blaimed
performance enhancing the communist system
steroids
6. TASK:
You are lawyers working the case.
Research the case
Decide which party you will represent
Produce a written argument to win the
case.
You will then argue your case in class
7. Each of the sports schools were linked to
state run sports clubs
This allowed athletes to train full time
without risking their amateur status for
Olympic competition.
Associated with particular trades
Locomotive (Railway)/Dynamo (Police)/Spartak
(Electricians)/CSKA (Army)
8. National Institutes of sport
State of the art facilities
Treadmills
Swimming flumes
Hypoxic Chambers
Final preparation for the Olympics
German College of Physical Culture in
Leipzig
Home to most of the ‘supportive medicine’
9. Modern Day Germany
Germany still have
a talent ID scheme
sport institute model
many Olympic training centres
No doping scandal!
10. Australia
Australian Institute of sport
Born out of failure at the 1976 Olympics in
Montreal
One silver
Four bronze
A world best practice model for elite
athlete development
UK setting up similar programmes
11. Public displeasure led to large government
funding
Public money was spent on creating an
elite sports system to ensure future succes
12. AIS 1981
Initial intake of 150 athletes across 8
sports
AIS now offers scholarships to 600
athletes each year in 35 separate
programmes covering 25 different sports
It employs 75 full-time coached
Main focus on the Olympics
13. High performance coaching
State of the art technology
World-class sports medicine and sports science
facility
Accommodation
Sport Search
Need for focussed, successful talent ID
Pop: 20.7million compared to 60.5million in UK
15. Task:
Using rowing as an example, explain how
the AIS used sports search to identify
potential talent in the build up to the 2000
Sydney Olympics.
16. Athlete Career and Education (ACE)
Programme
Australian scholarship holders
Enhance personal development and
performance through career and education
services
Advisors help athletes plan for life after
sport
17. AIS also provides administrative, sports
science and coaching services
Funding for state and territory institutes,
academies and national sporting
organisations.
18. Some AIS developments
The Ice Jacket
http://www.sportsci.org/news/news9811/AISj
ackets.html
The Super Roo Bike & wind tunnel testing
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/hsc/bik
e/article.htm
The Altitude House
http://www.abc.net.au/news/olympics/feature
s/altitude.htm
19. Since 1998 AIS has branched out from central
model of Canberra to state run facilities
Falls in line with federal/state political
administration of Australia
Reflection of their dedication to improvement
and development
Commonly athletes preferred to stay in their
locality
Non residential
20. United States of America
Task: 20 mins
Describe how the USA structure their
sport and talent I.D. and how their
scholarship programmes are structured.
Give evidence of the following:
Nurturing Talent
High School Sport
College and University Sport
21. USA
Sporting talent is nurtured through high
school and college system
Not club based
Mirror of professional sport structure
Top class facilities for performers and
spectators
Colleges receive huge support from local
areas both financial and as spectators
22. Scholarships
Provides talented amateur
sportsmen and women with an
exclusive opportunity to pursue
both an academic and athletic
career simultaneously.
Can cover many, sometimes
all, of the costs associated with
earning a university degree.
In return, the student-athlete
will represent the university in
their respective sport and
maintain a good level of
academic performance.
There are currently over
500,000 student-athletes
competing for approximately
2000 collegiate sports
programs.
24. The Annual Draft
Professional Sports Contract
Draft
4 Years Higher Ed Squad
Sports Scholarship
High School Squad
25. Brought in in 1936 the draft is a
mechanism for equalising the league and
avoiding imbalance of power
Professional clubs cream off the best
college players
Closely followed by media and public
26. Every college game is recorded and analysed by
a national office
Players are then ranked
The top ranked go through to the draft
Draft works in reverse order – weakest
performing teams get first pick of the best
college athletes
Trading and competition between teams
Start in feeder teams of professional clubs
Only 5 % make it to first team
29. The UK
What structures are in place and what
developments have there been in the UK
to enhance elite sport?
30. Have you made reference to these?
UK Sport – sports councils
World Class Performance Pathway
UKSI
National Network Centres
NGB’s
Elite Coach Education Programme
ACE UK
Athlete Funding