At its foundation in Moscow on 23 June 1921, the International Union of Red Sports and Gymnastics Associations, better known as Red Sport International (RSI), defined its mission as “the creation and amalgamation of revolutionary proletarian sports and gymnastics organizations in all countries of the world and their transformation into support centers for the proletariat in its class struggle.”...

This article summarizes Plenary Session I, “Exercise and Youth,” at the 6th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science (Cologne, 24–28 July 2001). The session provided a broad overview of current knowledge and progress in the field. Using the results of cross-sectional studies, Dietrich Kurz of Germany demonstrated associations between sport activity and personal attributes of psy...

How to enhance community resilience natural disasters is a major question for researchers and policymakers. Although agree that sport generates benefits, few scholarly efforts in management have been invested understanding the sport–resilience association. This paper attempted address whether how clusters—the clustering of industries—are associated with across locations. To achieve this, geogra...

While football remains mostly a sport associated with men and national identity, it has also become popular for women girls in Western countries. Despite this success, however, the coaching of strongly male dominated occupation. In paper, we explored how 10 elite coaches teams negotiated resisted entanglement techniques biopower, sovereign disciplinary power within sport. The results revealed t...

BACKGROUND Much research has been conducted into the determinants of physical activity (PA) participation among adolescent girls. However, the more specific question of what are the determinants of particular forms of PA participation, such as the link between participation through a sports club, has not been investigated. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationships ...

BACKGROUND There are specific guidelines regarding the level of physical activity (PA) required to provide health benefits. However, the research underpinning these PA guidelines does not address the element of social health. Furthermore, there is insufficient evidence about the levels or types of PA associated specifically with psychological health. This paper first presents the results of a s...

Cigarette smoking (CS) and low physical activity levels (PAL) are known to be risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. However, few studies have examined the associations between these in population of university students, and, best our knowledge, no study this issue period after COVID-19 pandemic, despite detrimental social health consequences pandemic. The aim cross-sectional was examine spo...

Downlo Symptomatic articular cartilage lesions of the knee can be debilitating, particularly in athletic patient populations. For patients with focal articular chondral defects in the knee, fresh osteochondral allograft transplantation (OCA) has been shown to be an effective single-stage procedure, particularly for larger lesions (42 cm) to restore the articular surface with hyaline cartilage. ...