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Title: World Events and Performer Barriers (A2 Physcial Education)
Description: These notes provide a detailed insight into the socio-cultural aspects of sport looking at the impact of world events and barriers to participation. Specifically for students studying A2 Physical Education (AQA).
Description: These notes provide a detailed insight into the socio-cultural aspects of sport looking at the impact of world events and barriers to participation. Specifically for students studying A2 Physical Education (AQA).
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Sports Revision
World Events
National Lottery – A form of gambling were the proceeds are divided between prize money and
good causes
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These
can be single or multi sport
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Countries use these events
to promote their country through profile (winning medals) and make economic gains through
tourism
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For competitors the world games creates a chance to compete with the worlds best and discover
who is the greatest
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However in
order to get to this level normal life must be sacrificed
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The cost may be far
too much resulting in debts or perhaps there could be a delay in construction or the event is not run
smoothly which could result in poor press coverage
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Or in Athens 2004 31 % of
competitors were female
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Some women are afraid to be questioned by the media in power based sports were you
need a lot of muscle and may be subject to homophobic reactions
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In general the UK Asian population are underrepresented and African Caribbean population are
over represented this leads us to believe that they may have a genetic advantage
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This over representation in specific sports could be due to
the role model effect or that they believe that they have a genetic advantage
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Disability
The British Paralympics association controls the entering, funding and management of disabled
athletes
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Disabled athletes also have a lack of media coverage which makes sponsorship harder which then
makes it even harder to earn a living through full time disabled sport
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Amateur sports suffer most from this
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Perhaps the sport has a specific social class
Not enough leisure time
Title: World Events and Performer Barriers (A2 Physcial Education)
Description: These notes provide a detailed insight into the socio-cultural aspects of sport looking at the impact of world events and barriers to participation. Specifically for students studying A2 Physical Education (AQA).
Description: These notes provide a detailed insight into the socio-cultural aspects of sport looking at the impact of world events and barriers to participation. Specifically for students studying A2 Physical Education (AQA).