INTRODUCTION Sports activities play an important role in today's society. However, as more people become involved in these activities, the number of sports-related injuries also increases. In the Netherlands, 3.5 million sports injuries occur annually. Twenty per cent of these injuries are first seen by a GP. Little is known about the epidemiology of these injuries in general practice. This stu...

Extreme sports (including in-line skating, snowboarding, mountain bicycling, extreme skiing, rock climbing, indoor tackle football, kickboxing, skateboarding, and ultra-endurance racing) are growing in popularity. Often these sports are designed to expose athletes to greater thrills and risks than are found in traditional sporting activities. Despite this increased risk of injury, athletes comp...

This study investigates the relation between leisure activities and the social status of the elderly based on a heterogeneous sample of the Dutch population. Close relationships are also analyzed to identify which people could serve as successful stimulators of leisure participation. The social profile confirms that older people have fewer social contacts and often feel lonely. This study shows...

Background. Sports events are activities carried out in a specific schedule to handle all sports competitions and activities, such as seminars, meetings, courses, panels, and camps, organized for sports purposes. Objectives. In this study, we aimed to discuss sports events during the pandemic. Methods. In this context, the present study targeted the 16th NKolay Istanbul Half Marathon on April...

e-Sports and cyber games are becoming popular among the young population and the effectiveness of gaming industry depends on the effective infrastructure. This paper contemplates some of the future developments required in the information and communications industry to suit the demands of online gamers and e-Sports industry. Some of the modern developments which can add greater facilities to th...

Abstract: In the background of Chinese sports rapidly development, it still has lots of problems and many factors that restrict Chinese sports development. Among them, rural sports are one of the main factors. The paper starts from Chinese rural sports public service funding input prediction and current status analysis two aspects, and goes ahead with comprehensive researches through trend extr...

AIM The main aim of this study was to examine differences in sport participation motives, the frequency of engaging in sports activities according to gender, region and field of study, but also the association between the incidence of engaging in sports activity and the motivation for sports activity of students at the University of Ljubljana. MATERIAL AND METHODS Five thousand two hundred se...