In the elite domain of interactive sports, athletes who demonstrate a left preference (e.g., holding a weapon with the left hand in fencing or boxing in a 'southpaw' stance) seem overrepresented. Such excess indicates a performance advantage and was also interpreted as evidence in favour of frequency-dependent selection mechanisms to explain the maintenance of left-handedness in humans. To test...

T Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement differ from other sport events and sport organizations as they are officially linked to an ideology, that is, to “... a systematic set of arguments and beliefs used to justify an existing or desired social order.” In the Olympic Charter, the “rule book” of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the official version of these arguments and beliefs is a...

individuals participate in sport events with different motivations. one of the elements that influence physical activity participation is a difference in cultures. so, in order to test this claim, 279 iranian and 310 russian students were investigated. they were from guilan, mazandaran, gorgan, and russian universities who attended the third sport olympiad in caspian sea in summer 2004. a resea...