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By Richard Bailey,Margaret Talbot
Sport is frequently perceived as being divided into separate domain names: mass participation and elite . in lots of nations, coverage and investment in those fields are controlled via separate businesses, and funding is usually noticeable as a call among the two.?Elite activity and Sport-for-All?explores the issues of connection and assets of hysteria among elite and mass participation recreation. The book’s multi-disciplinary and foreign line-up of participants seeks to outline, research, and improve options to this tricky relationship.
Drawing on examine and case reviews from round the world—with examples from Denmark, Canada, South Africa and Israel—the booklet explores key modern concerns including:
- does powerful expertise identity require intensity of participation?
- do elite performances motivate better participation?
- the position of the Paralympic flow in mass participation and elite sport;
- and the commercial points in their co-existence.
The first examine of its kind,?Elite recreation and Sport-for-All?addresses a critical dichotomy in game coverage and, as such, is necessary examining for all scholars, researchers, policy-makers or directors operating in game improvement and policy.
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