1st Edition
Elite Sport and Sport-for-All Bridging the Two Cultures?
Foreword 1. More Fulfilling Lives Through Sport: An Intersubjective Justification for Balancing Elite Sport and Sport for All (Cesar R. Torres and Douglas W. McLaughlin) 2. Elite sports: what is it good for: the case of EYOF Utrecht 2013 (Koen Breedveld and Paul Hover) 3. Arguments and evidence of bridging elite performance and mass participation sports from an economic perspective (Christoph Breuer and Pamela Wicker) 4. The question of the trickle-down effect in Danish sport: Can a relationship between elite sport success and mass participation be identified? (Rasmus K. Storm and Trygve Laub Asserhøj) 5. Two Solitudes: Grassroots Sport and High Performance Sport in Canada (Peter Donnelly and Bruce Kidd) 6. The Problem with the Pyramid: why most models of talent development are flawed (Richard Bailey and David Collins) 7. Opportunities for ‘all’ versus ‘gold’ for sport and country: a South African discourse (Cora Burnett) 8. The Paralympic Movement and Sport for All: Elite, Recreational and Inclusive Sport for Development (Mary A. Hums and Eli A. Wolff) 9. Elite Sport and Sport-for-All: Tales of a Small Country (Uri Schaefer) 10. Sexual exploitation in women’s sport: Can female athletes respond to it? (Stiliani "Ani" Chroni) 11. A Sporting Utopia: easing the essential tension in sport policy (Dave Collins and Richard Bailey)
Biography
The late Professor Margaret Talbot OBE was President of the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education, and a leading authority on physical education and sport
Richard Bailey is Senior Researcher at the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education, and is a well-known writer, researcher, and public speaker on the intersection of physical activity, sport and human development
