Talent identification and promotion programmes of olympic athletes

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1367-1380

  Vaeyens, Roel ^a   Güllich, Arne ^b   Warr, Chelsea R ^c   Philippaerts, Renaat ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^c UK Sport   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Practice; Sport expertise; Talent recycling

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CHILD; EDUCATION; HUMAN; SPORT; TEACHING;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; APTITUDE; ATHLETES; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CHILD; HUMANS; SPORTS; TEACHING;

EID: 74949096156     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410903110974     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Abbott, A., & Collins, D. (2002). A theoretical and empirical analysis of a "state of the art" talent identification model. High Ability Studies, 13, 157-178.
2. Abbott, A., & Collins, D. (2004). Eliminating the dichotomy between theory and practice in talent identification and development: Considering the role of psychology. Journal of Sports Sciences, 22, 395-408.
3. Abernethy, B. (2008). Introduction: Developing expertise in sport - how research can inform practice. In V (Eds.), Developing sport expertise (pp. 1-14). Abingdon: Routledge.
4. Abernethy, B., Baker, J., & Côté, J. (2005). Transfer of pattern recall may contribute to the development of sports expertise. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 1-14.
5. Ackland, T. R., & Bloomfield, J. (1996). Stability of human proportions through adolescent growth. Australian Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 28, 57-60.
6. Baker, J. (2003). Early specialization in youth sport: A requirement for adult expertise? High Ability Studies, 14, 85-94.
7. Baker, J., Côté, J., & Abernethy, B. (2003). Learning from experts: Practice activities of expert decision makers in sport. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 74, 342-347.
8. Baker, J., Côté, J., & Deakin, J. (2005). Expertise in ultraendurance triathletes: Early sport involvement, training structure and the theory of deliberate practice. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 17, 64-78.
9. Baker, J., & Horton, S. (2004). A review of primary and secondary influences on sport expertise. High Ability Studies, 15, 211-228.
10. Bass, S., Bradney, M., Pearce, G., Hendrich, E., Stuckey, S., Lo, K., et al. (2000). Short stature and delayed puberty in gymnasts: Influence of selection bias on leg length and the duration of training on trunk length. Journal of Pediatrics, 136, 149-155.
11. Baxter-Jones, A., Goldstein, H., & Helms, P. (1993). The development of aerobic power in young athletes. Journal of Applied Physiology, 75, 1160-1167.
12. Baxter-Jones, A. D. G., Helms, P., Baines Preece, J., & Preece, M. (1994). Menarche in intensively trained gymnasts, swimmers and tennis players. Annals of Human Biology, 21, 407-415.
13. Baxter-Jones, A. D. G., Helms, P., Maffulli, N., & Preece, M. (1995). Growth and development of male gymnasts, swimmers, soccer and tennis players: A longitudinal study. Annals of Human Biology, 22, 381-394.
14. Bernard, A. B., & Busse, M. R. (2004). Who wins the Olympic Games: Economic resources and medal totals. Review of Economics and Statistics, 86, 413-417.
15. Bloom, B. S. (1985). Developing talent in young people. New York: Ballantine.
16. Caine, D., Lewis, R., O'Connor, P., Howe, W., & Bass, S. (2001). Does gymnastics training inhibit growth of females? Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 11, 260-270.
17. Carlson, R. C. (1997). In search of the expert sport performer. Science in the Olympic Sport, 1, 1-13.
18. Côté, J. (1999). The influence of the family in the development of talent in sports. The Sport Psychologist, 13, 395-417.
19. Côté, J., Baker, J., & Abernethy, B. (2003). From play to practice: A developmental framework for the acquisition of expertise in team sports. In J. Starkes & K. A. Ericsson (Eds.), Expert performance in sports: Advances in research on sport expertise (pp. 89-110). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
20. Deakin, J. M., & Cobley, S. (2003). A search for deliberate practice: An examination of the practice environments in figure skating and volleyball. In J. L. Starkes & K. A. Ericsson (Eds.), Expert performance in sports: Advances in research on sport expertise (pp. 115-135). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
21. De Bosscher, V., De Knop, P., Van Bottenburg, M., & Shibli, S. (2006). A conceptual framework for analysing sports policy factors leading to international sporting success. European Sport Management Quarterly, 6, 185-215.
22. De Koning, J. J., Bakker, F. C., de Groot, G., & van Ingen Schenau, G. J. (1994). Longitudinal development of young talented speed skaters: Physiological and anthropometric aspects. Journal of Applied Physiology, 77, 2311-2317.
23. Durand-Bush, N., & Salmela, J. H. (2001). The development of talent in sport. In R. N. Singer, H. A. Hausenblas, & C. M. Janelle (Eds.), Handbook of sport psychology (2nd edn., pp. 269-289). New York: Wiley.
24. Emrich, E., Pitsch, W., Güllich, A., Klein, M., Fröhlich, M., Flatau, J., et al. (in press). Promotion of top-class sport in Germany: An analysis of the current situation and perspectives from the point of view of empirical social research. Kaiserslautern/Saarbrü cken.
25. Ericsson, K. A., Krampe R. T., & Tesch-Römer, C. (1993). The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. Psychological Review, 100, 363-406.
26. Ford, P., Le Gall, F., Carling, C., & Williams, M. (2008). A crosscultural comparison of the participation histories of English and French elite youth soccer players. In R. Reilly & F. Korkusuz (Eds.), Science and football VI: Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress on Science and Football (pp. 109-112). London: Taylor & Francis.
27. Geron, E. (1978). Psychological assessment of sport giftedness. In U. Simri (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Psychological Assessment in Sport (pp. 216-231). Netanya, Israel: Wingate Institute.
28. Gulbin, J. (2006). Why deliberate practice isn't enough? Paper presented to the Symposium on "Dimensions of Performance", Berlin, Germany. Retrieved May 20, 2008, from http://www.icsspe.org/download/documente/sonstiges/Gulbin.doc?PHPSESSID=061cc6240fd4dba6bd3ce8f007363fb2
29. Gulbin, J. (2008). Identifying and developing sporting experts. In D. Farrow, J. Baker, & C. MacMahon (Eds.), Developing sport expertise (pp. 60-72). Abingdon: Routledge.
30. Güllich, A. (2007). Training - Support - Success: Control-related assumptions and empirical findings. Saarbrü cken: University of the Saarland [in German].
31. Güllich A., & Emrich, E. (2006a). Evaluation of the support of young athletes in the elite sport system. European Journal for Sport and Society, 3(2), 85-108.
32. Güllich, A., & Emrich, E. (2006b). Sport-spanning training variability augments individual success potential in elite sport. In H. Hoppeler, T. Reilly, E. Tsolakidis, L. Gfeller, & S. Klossner (Eds.), Book of abstracts of the 11th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science (p. 533). Cologne: Sportverlag Strauss.
33. Güllich, A., Emrich, E., Espwall, S., Olyslager, M., Parker, R., Rus, V., et al. (in press). Cooperation between elite sport and education in Europe: Description and approaches to evaluation. Kaiserslautern/Saarbrü cken.
34. Güllich, A., Papathanassiou, V., Pitsch, W., & Emrich, E. (2001). Squad careers in junior and senior elite sport - age structure and continuity. Leistungssport, 31(4), 63-71 [in German].
35. Güllich, A., Thees, J., & Bartz, E. (2005). Evaluation of the elite sport schools. Final Report to the German Olympic Sports Confederation. Frankfurt/Main, Germany [in German].
36. Helsen, W. F., Hodges, N. J., Van Winckel, J., & Starkes, J. L. (2000). The roles of talent, physical precocity and practice in the development of soccer expertise. Journal of Sports Sciences, 18, 727-736.
37. Helsen, W. F., Starkes, J. L., & Hodges, N. J. (1998). Team sports and the theory of deliberate practice. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 20, 12-34.
38. Hill, G. M. (1993). Youth sport participation of professional baseball players. Sociology of Sport, 10, 107-114.
39. Hill, R., McConnell, A., Forster, T., & Moore, J. (2002). The path to excellence: A comprehensive view of the development of U.S. Olympians who competed from 1984-1998. Retrieved December 16, 2003, from www.usolympicteam.com/excellence/Olympians_Report.pdf
40. Hoare, D. G., & Warr, C. R. (2000). Talent identification and woman's soccer: An Australian experience. Journal of Sports Sciences, 18, 751-758.
41. Hodge, T., & Deakin, J. (1998). Deliberate practice and expertise in the martial arts: The role of context in motor recall. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 20, 260-279.
42. Hodges, N. J., & Starkes, J. L. (1996). Wrestling with the nature of expertise: A sport specific test of Ericsson, Krampe and Tesch-Römer's (1993) theory of deliberate practice. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 27, 400-424.
43. Hogan, K., & Norton, K. (2000). The "price" of Olympic gold. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 3, 203-218.
44. Joch, W. (1992). The sporting talent. Aachen, Germany: Meyer & Meyer [in German].
45. Johnson, D. K. N., & Ali, A. (2004). A tale of two seasons: Participation at the Summer and Winter Olympic games. Social Science Quarterly, 85, 974-993.
46. Kalinowski, A. G. (1985). The development of Olympic swimmers. In B. S. Bloom (Ed.), Developing talent in young people (pp. 139-192). New York: Ballantine.
47. Kjendlie, P.-L. (2007). Career development of international top level swimmers versus national level swimmers. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 39 (suppl.), 413.
48. Kuper, G., & Sterken, E. (2003). Olympic participation and performance since 1896. Retrieved November 28, 2006, from http://www.eco.rug.nl/medewerk/sterken/download/olympic.pdf
49. Kupper, K., & Wallberg, U. (1978). Valuation of the certainty and validity of the criteria and normatives applied in the standardized screening and selection in 4th grade. Leipzig: German University of Physical Culture [in German].
50. Kutschke, F. (1988). On the state of development of education of the participants in the XI Child and Youth Spartakiade in the summer disciplines. Theorie und Praxis Leistungssport, 26, 224-239 [in German].
51. Le Gall, F., Carling, C., Williams, M., & Reilly, T. (2008). Anthropometric and fitness characteristics of international, professional and amateur male graduate soccer players from an elite youth academy. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. D.O.I. 10.1016/j.jsams.2008.07.004.
52. Ljach, W. I. (1997). High-performance sport in childhood in Russia. Leistungssport, 27(5), 37-40 [in German].
53. Malina, R. M. (1994). Physical growth and biological maturation of young athletes. Exercise and Sports Science Reviews, 22, 389-433.
54. Malina, R. M., Bouchard, C., & Bar-Or, O. (2004). Growth, maturation and physical activity (2nd edn.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
55. Malina, R. M., & Geithner, C. A. (1993). Background in sport, growth status, and growth rate of junior Olympic divers. In R. M. Malina & J. L. Gabriel (Eds.), Proceedings of the US Diving Sport Science Seminar 1993 (pp. 26-35). Indianapolis, IN: United States Diving.
56. Martindale, R. J. J., Collins, D., & Daubney, J. (2005). Talent development: A guide for practice and research within sport. Quest, 57, 353-375.
57. MacMahon, C., Helsen, W. F., Starkes, J. L., & Weston, M. (2007). Decision-making skills and deliberate practice in elite association football referees. Journal of Sports Sciences, 25, 65-78.
58. Monsaas, J. A. (1985). Learning to be a world-class tennis player. In B. S. Bloom (Ed.), Developing talent in young people (pp. 211-269). New York: Ballantine.
59. Musch, J., & Grondin, S. (2001). Unequal competition as an impediment to personal development: A review of the relative age effect in sport. Developmental Review, 21, 147-167.
60. Oldenziel, K., Gagné, F., & Gulbin, J. P. (2004). Factors affecting the rate of athlete development from novice to senior elite: How applicable is the 10-year-rule? Paper presented to the 2004 Pre-Olympic Congress - "Sport Science Through the Ages", Thessaloniki, Greece. Retrieved May 20, 2008, from http://www.cev.org.br/br/biblioteca/preolymp/download/O.027.doc
61. Oldenziel, K., Gulbin, J. P., & Gagné, F. (2003). How do elite athletes develop? A look through the rear-view mirror. Canberra, ACT: Australian Sports Commission.
62. Pearson, D. T., Naughton, G. A., & Torode, M. (2006). Predictability of physiological testing and the role of maturation in talent identification for adolescent team sports. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 9, 277-287.
63. Petlichkoff, L. M. (1994). Dropping out of sport: Speculation versus reality. In D. Hackfort (Ed.), Sport science international -Psycho-social issues and interventions in elite sport (pp. 60-87). Frankfurt/Main: Lang.
64. Régnier, G., Salmela, J., & Russell, S. J. (1993). Talent detection and development in sport. In R. N. Singer, M. Murphy, & L. K. Tennant (Eds.), Handbook on research on sport psychology (pp. 290-313). New York: Macmillan.
65. Riecken, R., Wallberg, U., & Senf, G. (1993). Sport-pedagogical problem study on the promotion of children and adolescents interested in continuous sport involvement: Study on the results of the promotion system for young athletes in the elite sport system of the former GDR. Leipzig: University of Leipzig [in German].
66. Rost, R., Kusber, M., Bjarnason-Wehrens, B., & Tiberi, M. (1989). Investigation on the problems of talent selection in aerobic and anaerobic athletics. In D. Böning, K. M. Braumann, M. W. Busse, N. Maassen, & W. Schmidt (Eds.), Sport - Rettung oder Risiko fü r die Gesundheit? (pp. 988-991). Cologne: Deutscher Ä rzte Verlag [in German].
67. Schumacher, Y. O., Mroz, R., Mueller, P., Schmid, A., & Ruecker, G. (2006). Success in elite cycling: A prospective and retrospective analysis of race results. Journal of Sports Sciences, 24, 1149-1156.
68. Simon, H. A., & Chase, W. G. (1973). Skill in chess. American Scientist, 61, 394-403.
69. Smeeton, N. J., Ward, P., & Williams, A. M. (2004). Do pattern recognition skills transfer across sports? A preliminary analysis. Journal of Sports Sciences, 22, 205-213.
70. Starkes, J. (2000). The road to excellence: Is practice the only determinant? International Journal of Sport Psychology, 31, 431-451.
71. Starkes, J. L., Deakin, J. M., Allard, F., Hodges, N. J., & Hayes, A. (1996). Deliberate practice in sports: What is it anyway? In K. A. Ericsson (Ed.), The road to excellence: The acquisition of expert performance in the arts, sciences, sports and games (pp. 81-106). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
72. UK Sport (2008a). London 2012 - it could be you. Talent identification and confirmation - the hunt for London 2012 talent. Retrieved May 20, 2008, from www.uksport.gov.uk/pages/talent_id/
73. UK Sport (2008b). Sporting giants. Retrieved May 20, 2008, from www.uksport.gov.uk/pages/talent_id/
74. Vaeyens, R., Lenoir, M., Williams, A. M., & Philippaerts, R. M. (2008). Talent identification and development programmes in sport: Current models and future directions. Sports Medicine, 38, 703-714.
75. Van Rossum, J. H. A. (2000). Deliberate practice and Dutch field hockey: An addendum to Starkes. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 31, 452-460.
76. Ward, P., Hodges, N. J., Williams, A. M., & Starkes, J. L. (2004). Deliberate practice and expert performance: Defining the path to excellence. In A. M. Williams & N. J. Hodges (Eds.), Skill acquisition in sport: Research, theory and practice (pp. 231-258). New York: Routledge.
77. Ward, P., & Williams, A. M. (2003). Perceptual and cognitive skill development in soccer: The multidimensional nature of expert performance. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 25, 93-111.
78. Williams, A. M., & Franks, A. (1998). Talent identification in soccer. Sports, Exercise and Injury, 4, 159-165.
79. Williams, A. M., Lee, D., & Reilly, T. (1999). A quantitative analysis of matches played in the 1991-92 and 1997-98 seasons. Report for the Football Association.