Live Sports Research Articles

NOVEL ANGLICISMS IN MODERN MEDIA SPORT COVERAGE

The paper examines novel anglicisms in Slovak and Ukrainian sport commentaries. The lexical material is excerpted from live sports coverage of the Olympic Games. The research findings highlight a notable difference in the extent and nature of linguistic (borrowings from English into Slovak and Ukrainian); however, they provide remarkably similar insights into how language functions in sporting environments and how culture and communication interact to increase audience engagement and satisfaction at sporting events.

Sport, Choice and Social Class: Reading Indian Female Sports Life Writings

Sports form a continuous part of any culture, created and sustained for entertainment, pleasure, competition and bonding; founded on certain standards, interests, requirements, and resources of the sports community. Yet, the classification of some sports as ‘elite’ goes unrecognised simply because it appears to be natural and moreover it is always ‘how things are’. Traditional theories of class indicate that economic differentiation is the reason for various choices in the society. On the other hand Bourdieu has suggested that economic capital is not the only element influencing one’s choice and there are other multiple non-economic criteria too. Taking into account Bourdieu’s class concepts we seek to identify the non-economic factors that have led sportspersons in India to their choice of sport. Narrative analysis is performed for autobiographies of two female sportspersons, Saina Nehwal and Mary Kom, to highlight the different parameters that have influenced their choice of sport. The identification of such non-economic factors like a person’s mental strength, level of angst, resilience, emotional and financial well-being, and others, provide insight into the stratifications that impact sports culture in India.

Research on the prevention of joint and muscle injuries in competitive sports by scientific sports—Table tennis as an example

Table tennis is the most popular sport among all people, which damages every joints of the body to a certain extent, and is an example of scientific sports analysis and popularization. Analyzing the causes of joint and muscle injuries in table tennis and seeking effective preventive measures can not only reduce the incidence of sports injuries, but also ensure that athletes keep a high level of competitive state in high-intensity and long-term training and competition to a certain extent, and prolong their sports life. From two aspects of traditional sports injury prevention measures and the design of a multi-data fusion management rehabilitation robot, the prevention of muscle injury in competitive sports has been studied in depth.

Stakeholder perceptions of physical literacy: results from a national consultation in England.

There is a lack of evidence of stakeholder perspective and understanding of physical literacy among relevant stakeholders from England. As part of research commissioned by Sport England to develop a physical literacy consensus statement for England, this study presents findings from the first national consultation with stakeholders in England. One hundred and ninety-three individual stakeholders (50.3%) from education, community sport, national governing bodies of sport, physical activity and sport coaching sectors completed an online survey consisting of fixed item and open ended questions designed to examine their knowledge, understanding, perceptions and practices relating to physical literacy. Responses from stakeholders suggested there was confusion in use of the term physical literacy in practice and confusion regarding the definition of physical literacy. Most respondents suggested they were involved in physical literacy related activity and understood the term. However, when probed the physical literacy related activity they referred to was likely not actually physical literacy related. Understanding of the term physical literacy was inconsistent in general. Stakeholders considered the affective, social, physical and cognitive areas (domains) of learning to be most important for developing a positive relationship with movement, sport and physical activity for life. While stakeholders are aware of the term "physical literacy" and hold value of it within their practice, there remain key misconceptions relating to what physical literacy is, and debate as to whether any existing definitions truly capture the construct of physical literacy.

The causes of sports injuries of fencers and the coping strategies

Context Fencing is an ancient sport that originated in medieval European wars and gradually developed into a regulated competitive sport. It is a combination of elegant movements and flexible tactics, requiring athletes to be highly focused mentally and well-coordinated physically. Such high demands on movements and reactions reflect the excellent skills and agility of fencers. In order to achieve excellent competition results, many aspects are often involved in the training, including the comprehensive training of technical, physical, tactical and psychological quality. Such high-demand training and high-intensity competition make the probability of sports injury in the process of sports greatly increased. These injuries not only affect the athletes' immediate performance, but also may have a negative impact on their long-term career and shorten the athletes' sports life and may also bring huge psychological pressure and anxiety to the athletes. How to effectively avoid athletes' sports injury and improve the quality of training have become the key reasons for fencers to achieve good results. By understanding the causes and influencing factors of knee joint injury of fencers, it can provide theoretical basis for injury protection of fencers. At the same time, individual prevention or intervention strategies are adopted.

Socioeconomic position and sports in the US today: the economic and cultural capital of sports followers

PurposeThis study aims to explore the relationship between social class and sports following in the United States, addressing a gap in research that has largely overlooked spectator sports in sociocultural analyses. The paper seeks to be an expanded update on previous work focusing on how socioeconomic factors such as income and education interact with sports engagement.Design/methodology/approachEmploying 2023 national survey data from the United States, this study analyzes the following of 31 different spectator sports in relation to income and education. The methods include the use of Cramer’s V statistic to assess associations between sports following and socioeconomic variables and multiple logistic regression analysis to understand the relative predictive power of these variables on sports following.FindingsThe study reveals significant socioeconomic associations in sports consumption patterns in American society, with higher income and education levels generally predicting an increased likelihood of following a wide range of sports. Notably, international soccer leagues like the English Premier League and La Liga showed the strongest associations with higher socioeconomic status, suggesting their following might serve as particularly potent markers of sociocultural distinction.Originality/valueThis research provides a contemporary empirical update to the study of social class and spectator sports in the US, expanding the understanding of the evolving landscape of sports consumption and its socioeconomic connections. It underscores the importance of considering sports following as a vital aspect of cultural engagement, reflecting and reproducing broader socioeconomic stratifications. The findings offer new insights into how factors of social class shape sports consumption today, highlighting the role of sports in the cultural life of different social classes in the US.

An Exploration of Sports Culture and Sports Poetry Creation in the Tang Dynasty

Tang Dynasty sports culture, with its diverse artistic forms and profound and rich aesthetic connotations, gave Tang Dynasty poems a unique artistic style and greatly expanded the subject areas of poetic creation. By comprehensively applying the theories and research methods of sports, literature, history, and other disciplines, we analyze and study Tang Dynasty poems with sports themes, aiming to comprehensively reveal the colorful and rich connotations of sports life in the context of Tang Dynasty's social background of national strength and cultural prosperity. The various forms of sports helped people to be physically fit and greatly enriched the subject matter of poems with the diverse aesthetic experiences they contained. It also promoted the innovation and development of poetic art. The sports poems show the fusion of the Tang Dynasty's superb performing arts and sports culture with condensed words, which can be called an essential script for recording all kinds of sports in the Tang Dynasty, and provide valuable information for future generations to reproduce the high level of Tang Dynasty's sports skills.

Article RETRACTED due to manipulation by the authors Game talk: exploring the linguistic features of sports commentary

This study is investigating the linguistic features of sports commentary. The focus is the politeness techniques using and gender-specific language variations observed in 2022 FIFA World Cup. This study used qualitative approach. This study was examining the collection of real-time commentary from various matches in 2022 World Cup. The analysis of this study focusses on prominent politeness methods, including softened criticism, neutral descriptions, respectful acknowledgments, and positive reinforcement. It further investigates the effectiveness of these strategies in the specific context of live sports broadcasting. The findings suggest that the use of politeness tactics is important for maintaining the professional users and engaging tone when commenting the match. This study also found that female commentators disposed to use more supportive and cooperative language, emphasizing teamwork and exertion, while male commentators disposed to use more competitive and authoritative language, focusing on individual performance and strategic analysis. These findings consistent with the research on gender communication and emphasize the significance of comprehending special style communication styles in sports commentary. This study branch holds significant importance for both the field of sports broadcasting and the branch of linguistics. The results indicate that commentator training programs should include knowledge of politeness techniques and gender-specific communication styles in order to improve audience involvement and provide a pleasant viewing experience. This work improves the knowledge of language usage in real-time sports commentary, such as dynamic and culturally significant situation in linguistic form. It highlights the significance of language in reflect and reinforce the cultural values and conventions, promoting inclusiveness, and deepening the spectator’s which tie up with the event. Keywords: Live Sports Commentary, Politeness Strategies, Sports Broadcasting.

Effects Of Playing Multiple Sports On Sport Life, And Basic Lifestyle Among Elementary School Children

Effects Of Playing Multiple Sports On Sport Life, And Basic Lifestyle Among Elementary School Children

Knowledge in the structure of curricular modules in the discipline university physical education: formative functions

It is well known the role of knowledge for learning motor actions, but also the application of knowledge gained in the independent practice of sports in everyday life. Knowledge, in fact, substantiates practical contents in physical education and sports activity. In this context, it is obvious that the small number of hours allocated to the subject of university physical education during a semester, the voluminous and complex contents cannot fully ensure the formation of knowledge specific to the sport test studied (especially when this sport was not studied in school). Thus, teachers are forced to resort to some methods less specific to the subject, and especially ICT tools. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to streamline the educational process in the discipline of university physical education by intensifying the formation of specific knowledge within the modules / sports tests by applying ICT tools. The pedagogical model developed by us for the formation of knowledge in university physical education lessons was applied to first-year students, who opted to study the badminton module, and the results are reflected in this work.

Consideration of Measures to Increase the Free Distribution of Live Sports Broadcasts on OTT (Over The Top)

Consideration of Measures to Increase the Free Distribution of Live Sports Broadcasts on OTT (Over The Top)

Relationship Between Sports Life Satisfaction and Life Commitment

Relationship Between Sports Life Satisfaction and Life Commitment

CCE-Net: Causal Convolution Embedding Network for Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition

Article CCE-Net: Causal Convolution Embedding Network for Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition Feiteng Deng, Yue Ming *, and Boyang Lyu Beijing Key Laboratory of Work Safety and Intelligent Monitoring, School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China * Correspondence: yming@bupt.edu.cn Received: 11 March 2024 Accepted: 15 August 2024 Published: 27 September 2024 Abstract: Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has gained significant attention across various application scenarios, including video conferencing, live sports events, and intelligent terminals. However, chunk division for current streaming speech recognition results in insufficient contextual information, thus weakening the ability of attention modeling and leading to a decrease in recognition accuracy. For Mandarin speech recognition, there is also a risk of splitting Chinese character phonemes into different chunks, which may lead to incorrect recognition of Chinese characters at chunk boundaries due to incomplete phonemes. To alleviate these problems, we propose a novel front-end network - Causal Convolution Embedding Network (CCE-Net). The network introduces a causal convolution embedding module to obtain richer historical context information, while capturing Chinese character phoneme information at chunk boundaries and feeding it to the current chunk. We conducted experiments on Aishell-1 and Aidatatang. The results showed that our method achieves a character error rate (CER) of 5.07% and 4.90%, respectively, without introducing any additional latency, showing competitive performances.

B - 52 A Pilot Study for the Responsible Concussion Commentary Checklist: Evaluating Commentary of Head Injury Assessment in the Australian National Rugby League

Abstract Objective Focus on sport-related concussion has increased due to growing concerns regarding the long-term effects of repeated concussion. To improve player safety, some sports have adopted new injury assessment and management protocols. These efforts may be undercut by the live media coverage of concussion, which is known to downplay concussion. This pilot study explored how live sports commentary from the Australian National Rugby League portrays concussion in the context of the newly introduced Head Injury Assessment (HIA) protocol. Method 15 concussions were randomly selected from the 69 HIA-tiggering events from rounds 1 to 8 of the 2024 season. The live commentary for those events was evaluated using a concussion commentary checklist. This multi-item checklist was developed from existing recommendations for the responsible reporting of concussion. The checklist evaluated the extent to which the commentary met the gold standard requirements (e.g., used the correct injury terminology) and yielded an overall impression score (commentary quality). Results Impression ratings revealed that the commentary was rarely scored as high quality, indicating that it did not meet the gold standard expected for accurate and responsible commentary of on field instances of suspected concussion. The scores for the individual checklist items were also frequently low. Commonly identified issues included the use of incorrect injury terminology and injury minimisation. Conclusion This pilot study showed that the live commentary of suspected concussion was poor. The findings have implications for concussion awareness through changed practices in live sports commentary. Commentary guidance is needed to prevent the spread of misinformation about concussion among sport spectators.

Open vs. Percutaneous Achilles Tendon Repair: Experience of Single Orthopedic Institute with Long-Term Follow-Up.

Background and Objectives: There are numerous techniques for the surgical treatment of Achilles tendon lesions described in the literature, and it is possible to distinguish repair techniques as either open surgery or percutaneous repair techniques. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. With this retrospective study, we aim to analyze the incidence of re-ruptures and other complications, return to sport and overall quality of life at a long-term follow-up in the treatment of acute ATRs, comparing the results of percutaneous repair with those of open repair. Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective study on a consecutive series of patients with complete tear of the AT who were managed through a surgical approach by the Operative Unit of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of Sant'Anna University Hospital (Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) between April 2014 and December 2021. Patients were treated with a percutaneous or an open technique according to the surgeon's preference without randomization. Results: We considered 155 patients who met the established inclusion criteria. Of these, 103 (66.45%) patients underwent percutaneous treatment with the Tenolig® system, and 52 (33.55%) underwent open surgery, with an average ATRS in the first group of 92.5 compared to an average ATRS value of 82 in patients treated with the open technique. Conclusions: In our experience, following overlapping rehabilitation protocols in all patients included, we observed that the Tenolig® repair system led to a better ATRS at long-term follow-up, with comparable complication rates to open surgery.

Unveiling the forces behind exercise intent in sports and fitness live streaming: a combination of symmetric and asymmetric modeling approaches

PurposeThis study aims to answer the following research questions: (1) How do features of sports and fitness live streaming content influence individuals’ viewing experiences? (2) How do these antecedents interact with each other to influence individuals’ intentions to exercise in the context of sports and fitness live streaming?Design/methodology/approachWe employed both symmetric (PLS-SEM) and asymmetric (fsQCA) analyses using data from 886 participants. A mixed approach addresses the complex nature of the decision-making process among sports and fitness live streaming users.FindingsThe findings reveal that individuals’ appraisal of their interactions with sports and fitness streamers (i.e. instant feedback, interactivity) significantly affects their perceptions of telepresence, entertainment, and flow. These, in turn, positively influence their intention to exercise in live sports and fitness streaming sessions. The study also uncovers various combinations of causal conditions leading to exercise intention, a detail overlooked by the PLS-SEM method alone.Originality/valueThis research contributes to the literature on cognitive appraisal theory, particularly in the context of sports and fitness live streaming, by integrating symmetric and asymmetric analyses. Practically, strategic implications are provided for practitioners in sports and fitness industry.

Registry-based cohort study comparing percentages of patients reaching PASS for knee function outcomes after revision ACLR compared to primary ACLR

ObjectivesReaching the Patient-Acceptable Symptom State (PASS) threshold for the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) has previously been reported to successfully identify individuals experiencing clinical success after anterior cruciate...

Practical Implementation of Automated Next Generation Audio Production for Live Sports

Practical Implementation of Automated Next Generation Audio Production for Live Sports

Sport and quality of life: Practices, habits and lifestyles

Sport and quality of life: Practices, habits and lifestyles

The impact of mental toughness on resilience and well‐being: A comparison of hearing‐impaired and non‐hearing‐impaired athletes

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of mental toughness levels on the psychological resilience and mental well‐being levels of hearing impaired and non‐hearing impaired athletes and the extent of the difference between hearing impaired and non‐hearing impaired athletes. The study group of the research consisted of 121 hearing impaired and 127 non‐hearing‐impaired athletes who continue their active sports life in Turkey. Convenience sampling method for non‐hearing‐impaired athletes and snowball sampling method for hearing impaired athletes were used for data collection. Data was collected online with Google Forms. In the study, structural equation modelling was conducted with Smart PLS program. In Model A, the direct effect of mental toughness on mental well‐being and resilience was determined. Model B showed that mental toughness directly affected mental well‐being and resilience. Mental toughness has a direct effect on psychological resilience and mental well‐being of hearing‐impaired athletes and non‐hearing‐impaired athletes. In addition, the mental toughness, psychological resilience and mental well‐being levels of hearing‐impaired athletes are higher than those of non‐hearing‐impaired athletes.