THE ORIENTEERING ELITE: WORLD CHAMPIONS SINGULARITIES
The pursuit of perfection has been one of the challenges that always was followed by the human being. Currently no one is indifferent to the systematic and exceptional performances of athletes like Cristiano Ronaldo (soccer), Simone Luder Niglli and Thierry Gueorgiou (orienteering), Usain Bolt (athl...
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| description | The pursuit of perfection has been one of the challenges that always was followed by the human being. Currently no one is indifferent to the systematic and exceptional performances of athletes like Cristiano Ronaldo (soccer), Simone Luder Niglli and Thierry Gueorgiou (orienteering), Usain Bolt (athletics), Michael Phelps (swimming) among many others, and whose characteristics, capabilities and development paths up immediately a great admiration and curiosity to know: how they developed these abilities? What characteristics and skills makes them so exceptional? How can maintain their high performance? In this sense the results have been showing that the development of excellence in sport has its origins in childhood and it is the result of an investment and long-term commitment (Barreiros, Côté, & Fonseca, 2013). But there are few studies focusing in some manner as orienteering.
Objectives: This study aims to identify characteristics and peculiarities that mark the path of a group of excellent athletes in orienteering. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-defe730f072e42dda6da28c52cb436af2022-12-21T20:31:18ZengFederación Extremeña de Balonmano; University of ExtremaduraE-balonmano.com: Revista de Ciencias del Deporte1885-70192015-04-011146970176THE ORIENTEERING ELITE: WORLD CHAMPIONS SINGULARITIESTadeu Celestino0José Carlos Leitão1Antonino Pereira2University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro.Research Center in Sports, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD). University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro.Centre for the Study of Education, Technologies and Health (CI&DETS). Polytechnic Institute of Viseu - School of Education.The pursuit of perfection has been one of the challenges that always was followed by the human being. Currently no one is indifferent to the systematic and exceptional performances of athletes like Cristiano Ronaldo (soccer), Simone Luder Niglli and Thierry Gueorgiou (orienteering), Usain Bolt (athletics), Michael Phelps (swimming) among many others, and whose characteristics, capabilities and development paths up immediately a great admiration and curiosity to know: how they developed these abilities? What characteristics and skills makes them so exceptional? How can maintain their high performance? In this sense the results have been showing that the development of excellence in sport has its origins in childhood and it is the result of an investment and long-term commitment (Barreiros, Côté, & Fonseca, 2013). But there are few studies focusing in some manner as orienteering. Objectives: This study aims to identify characteristics and peculiarities that mark the path of a group of excellent athletes in orienteering.http://e-balonmano.com/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/217athletesorienteering |
| spellingShingle | Tadeu Celestino José Carlos Leitão Antonino Pereira THE ORIENTEERING ELITE: WORLD CHAMPIONS SINGULARITIES E-balonmano.com: Revista de Ciencias del Deporte athletes orienteering |
| title | THE ORIENTEERING ELITE: WORLD CHAMPIONS SINGULARITIES |
| title_full | THE ORIENTEERING ELITE: WORLD CHAMPIONS SINGULARITIES |
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| title_full_unstemmed | THE ORIENTEERING ELITE: WORLD CHAMPIONS SINGULARITIES |
| title_short | THE ORIENTEERING ELITE: WORLD CHAMPIONS SINGULARITIES |
| title_sort | orienteering elite world champions singularities |
| topic | athletes orienteering |
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