This article aims to make a contribution to comparative sport research and details a method for comparing nations’ elite sport systems less descriptively by measuring and comparing determinants of national competitiveness quantitatively. A mixed methods exploratory sequential design is used, consist
During the last 20 years, a remarkable new type of service has been developed in the world of sports, which can be described as the indoorisation of outdoor sports. Typical outdoor sports like climbing, skiing, surfing, rowing and skydiving, which used to be exclusively practised in a natural enviro
De populariteit van het beoefenen van de hardloopsport in Nederland is de afgelopen vier decennia spectaculair gestegen. Dat is niet gelijkmatig gebeurd: er kan een tweetal loopgolven onderscheiden worden. Met de term loopgolf wordt gerefereerd aan een periode van deelnamegroei na een tijdvak van kr
The aim of this article is to explore the relationship between elite sport policy systems (inputs and throughputs) and success in international competitions (outputs). A conceptual model of the sports policy factors, which lead to international sporting success, was implemented in an empirical envir
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