Modern Competitive Sports Research Articles

Exploring the Formation Mechanism of Cultural Differences Between Chinese and Western Competitive Sportsmanship: Based on a Qualitative Study

Purpose: The development of athletics is pivotal to China's aspiration of becoming a modern competitive sports powerhouse. Spiritual culture, being its core component, also serves as an intrinsic driving force. A nuanced understanding of the formation of spiritual and cultural differences between Chinese and Western competitive sports is essential for the connotative construction of China's competitive sports strength. Methodology: This study employs qualitative text analysis to examine 46 texts in both Chinese and English. The aim is to investigate the mechanisms underlying the cultural differences between Chinese and Western sportsmanship and to construct a theoretical model. Findings: The study identifies five key dimensions—mindset, internal and external drive, traditional paradigm, code of conduct, and spiritual pillars—that collectively contribute to the cultural differences in Chinese and Western competitive sportsmanship. Among these, mindset, internal and external drive, and traditional paradigm are the causative factors, while codes of conduct and spiritual pillars represent the actions and outcomes that shape these cultural differences. Value: This study aims to elucidate the specific spiritual and cultural differences between Chinese and Western competitive sports, and the reasons behind these differences. By constructing a mechanism for the formation of these cultural differences, the study seeks to foster a conducive cultural environment for the development of competitive sports in China. This, in turn, is expected to accelerate China's transition from a major sports nation to a leading sports power on the global stage.

The Effects of High-Intensity Interval Training on Cognitive and Physical Skills in Basketball and Soccer Players.

As athletes pursue excellence, training techniques continue to advance, making structured physical activity an essential tool for enhancing performance. To optimize athletic performance in modern competitive sports, the balance of physical performance and mental clarity is required. This study seeks to examine the effects of High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) on cognitive and physical skills in basketball and soccer players. A 3-week HIIT protocol was incorporated based on the Wingate technique. This study included 10 soccer players and 10 basketball players with an average age of 22.79 ± 1.90 years. Participants performed pre- and post-intervention assessments. Physical proficiency was assessed using 20 m sprint, change-of-direction (COD) and dribbling tests, while cognitive skills were assessed using motion object tracking (MOT), working memory, perceptual load (PL), and attention window (AW) tests. The HIIT intervention significantly improved cognitive performance in particular; noteworthy observations were a 15% improvement in motion object tracking test scores and a 16% increase in working memory test scores for basketball players. The attention window test scores showed a 32% increase, and perceptual load test scores were 31% decreased for soccer players post-intervention. There were significant improvements in physical skills; for example, sprint times were decreased by 6%, and change-of-direction and dribbling times were reduced by 8% and 7%, respectively, indicating improved agility, speed, and ball control abilities. In conclusion, both groups performed significantly better on cognitive and physical skill tests post-HIIT intervention.

Strength and Conditioning Practices of Brazilian Olympic Sprint and Jump Coaches.

Olympic coaches are likely to have adequate knowledge and implement effective training programs. This study aimed to describe and critically examine the strength and conditioning practices adopted by Brazilian Olympic sprint and jump coaches. Nineteen Olympic coaches (age: 50.2 ± 10.8 years; professional experience: 25.9 ± 13.1 years) completed a survey consisting of eight sections: 1) background information; 2) strength-power development; 3) speed training; 4) plyometrics; 5) flexibility training; 6) physical testing; 7) technology use; and 8) programming. It was noticed that coaches prioritized the development of explosiveness, power, and sprinting speed in their training programs, given the specific requirements of sprint and jump events. Nevertheless, unexpectedly, we observed: (1) large variations in the number of repetitions performed per set during resistance training in the off-season period, (2) a higher volume of resistance training prescribed during the competitive period (compared to other sports), and (3) infrequent use of traditional periodization models. These findings are probably related to the complex characteristics of modern competitive sports (e.g., congested competitive schedule) and the individual needs of sprinters and jumpers. Identification of training practices commonly used by leading track and field coaches may help practitioners and sport scientists create more effective research projects and training programs.

A Study on the Evolution of Chinese Wrestling, the Characteristics of the Project and Its Value

By using the methods of literature review and expert interview, this paper studies the evolution history, features and value of Chinese style wrestling. The research results show that in the 1950s, Shuai Jiao was established as a modern competitive sport by Chinese sports workers with the background of thousands of years of wrestling practice in China, with reference to the rules of modern sports competition, and based on the wrestling techniques of Beijing and Tianjin, integrating the wrestling techniques of many nationalities. From the perspective of evolution, the main technical schools of Chinese style wrestling include Beijing, Shanxi, Mongolia and Baoding, etc. The main features of the sport are simple rules, well-known, intense sports, strong appreciation, rich techniques, strong dexterity, point to point, safe and civilization. Its project value is mainly to exercise quality, cultivate personality, profound connotation, inheritance carrier, physical fitness, self-defense, competitive viewing, enrich life, etc. It is necessary and meaningful to study the development history, events characteristics and value of Chinese style wrestling, so as to provide theoretical and practical reference for the development and promotion of Chinese style wrestling.

INFLUÊNCIA DO TREINAMENTO DE FORÇA DO CORE SOBRE A FORÇA DA CINTURA PÉLVICA NOS JOGADORES DE TÊNIS DE MESA

ABSTRACT Introduction Core strength training has attracted much attention in modern competitive sports. Objective Study the effect of core strength training on pelvic girdle strength in table tennis players. Methods 50 students aged 12-14 from the table tennis club of an elementary school affiliated with a normal university were divided into a control group and an experimental group. They performed a one-week training of core strength exercises. Through a series of technical index tests, the data before and after using these strength training methods were obtained for comparative analysis. Results After the core strength training, there was no significant difference between the other four indices in the experimental group and the control group, except for the fact that there was a significant difference in the performance of running around the platform (P < 0.05). Conclusion After the experiment, the four indexes reflecting the strength of the core muscle group in the experimental group were significantly optimized, while the four indexes in the control group were not significant, showing that core strength training has a more significant effect on improving the strength of the core muscle group. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigation of treatment outcomes.

ALGORITMOS DE ENXAME APLICADOS AO EXAME DO CONDICIONAMENTO FÍSICO DE ATLETAS EM COMPETIÇÃO

ABSTRACT Introduction Many countries have increased their investments in human resources and technology for the internal development of competitive sports, leading the world sports scene to increasingly fierce competition. Coaches and research assistants must place importance on feedback tools for frequent training of college athletes, and deep learning algorithms are an important resource to consider. Objective To develop and validate a swarm algorithm to examine the fitness of athletes during periods of competition. Methods Based on the swarm intelligence algorithm, the concept, composition, and content of physical exercises were analyzed. Combined with the characteristics of events, the body function files and the comprehensive evaluation system for high-level athletes were established. Results The insight was obtained that the constant mastery of the most advanced techniques and tactics by athletes is an important feature of modern competitive sports. Physical fitness is not only a valuable asset for athletes but also one of the keys to success in competition. Conclusion Fitness has become an increasingly prominent issue in competition, and the scientific training of contemporary competitive sports has been increasingly refined. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigation of treatment outcomes.

NPIPVis: A visualization system involving NBA visual analysis and integrated learning model prediction

BackgroundData-driven event analysis has gradually become the backbone of modern competitive sports analysis. Competitive sports data analysis tasks increasingly use computer vision and machine-learning models for intelligent data analysis. Existing sports visualization systems focus on the player–team data visualization, which is not intuitive enough for team season win–loss data and game time-series data visualization and neglects the prediction of all-star players. MethodsThis study used an interactive visualization system designed with parallel aggregated ordered hypergraph dynamic hypergraphs, Calliope visualization data story technology, and iStoryline narrative visualization technology to visualize the regular statistics and game time data of players and teams. NPIPVis includes dynamic hypergraphs of a teamʹs wins and losses and game plot narrative visualization components. In addition, an integrated learning-based all-star player prediction model, SRR-voting, which starts from the existing minority and majority samples, was proposed using the synthetic minority oversampling technique and RandomUnderSampler methods to generate and eliminate samples of a certain size to balance the number of allstar and average players in the datasets. Next, a random forest algorithm was introduced to extract and construct the features of players and combined with the voting integrated model to predict the all-star players, using Grid-SearchCV, to optimize the hyperparameters of each model in integrated learning and then combined with five-fold cross-validation to improve the generalization ability of the model. Finally, the SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) model was introduced to enhance the interpretability of the model. ResultsThe experimental results of comparing the SRR-voting model with six common models show that the accuracy, F1-score, and recall metrics are significantly improved, which verifies the effectiveness and practicality of the SRR-voting model. ConclusionsThis study combines data visualization and machine learning to design a National Basketball Association data visualization system to help the general audience visualize game data and predict all-star players; this can also be extended to other sports events or related fields.

The Impact of the Development of Modern Biotechnology and Nanotechnology on the Swimming Sports Industry

In today’s world, science and technology are developing rapidly, which has had a broad and profound impact on human society. After entering the twenty-first century, every ordinary person can feel the profound changes brought by modern science and technology to people’s daily life. In today’s society, the global economy is developing faster and faster, and the demand for sports is also increasing, bringing more and more consumers, which makes the sports industry an emerging industry with unlimited potential and expanding scale in the industrial economy. As one of the important events of modern competitive sports, swimming provides many opportunities and platforms for the development of Chinese competitive sports. Today, swimming is not only an Olympic sport but also a popular sport. Modern biotechnology and nanotechnology have an impact on all of our lives, but like other advanced technologies, their development inevitably involves uncertainty. This article focuses on the integration of nanotechnology and biotechnology to produce nanobiotechnology, the use of nanotechnology to address swimmers’ bodily functions, and the impact of its development on the field of swimming. The results found that compared with the normal group, the experimental group had an increase in the indexes of rest-fatigue-recovery stages, and the MPF value at rest increased significantly, from 90.1 to 111.3. As a popular sport among the people, swimming has also shown significant growth in the development of its social organization.

Evaluation Algorithm of Volleyball Players’ Competitive Ability Based on the Random Matrix Model

It is the trend of the development of modern competitive sports to put scientific and technological analysis methods and means into the study of volleyball, and it is also one of the powerful guarantee ways to promote the competitive level of all countries. The random matrix model algorithm has unique advantages to construct the team’s collective technical and tactical ability structure model. The quantitative relationship of the model describes the relationship between the technical and tactical ability structure and the result of victory and defeat and makes the advantages and disadvantages of the team clear, which is conducive to the subsequent targeted training and improvement. The technical and tactical abilities of the teams in different seasons were input to verify the prediction accuracy of the model for the teams in different seasons. In the face of the rapidly changing game situation, the coach team timely transmits the adjusted technical and tactical strategies to the players on the field and deals with the changes accurately and effectively. After the game, the opponent’s strengths and weaknesses should be clarified, and the team’s daily training details should be summarized to provide reference for the cultivation of collective technical and tactical consciousness. The random sample covariance matrix of the random monitoring matrix is constructed and the maximum and minimum eigenvalues of the sample covariance matrix are solved. The ratio of characteristic values is used to construct the detection index of characteristic values, and the detection threshold algorithm of characteristic values is determined to judge the competitive ability of volleyball players. In the case of false alarm rate and matrix size, based on Tracy-Widom distribution characteristics, the maximum eigenvalue and minimum eigenvalue approximations of sample covariance matrix are used to improve the eigenvalue index detection threshold algorithm, and the influence of false alarm rate, matrix size, and other parameters on the improved eigenvalue index detection threshold is further studied. Then, Iris data set was used to verify the effectiveness of the algorithm in terms of accuracy, recall rate, and comprehensive effective value, and the validation results proved that the accuracy of the algorithm reached more than 90%.

Data Fusion Model for Muscle Proteomics in Sports Applications

Proteome is a cell, tissue, or organism to express all the floorboard of the protein; proteomics is the study of proteomics is an emerging discipline; the research on the law of occurrence of sports fatigue and its mechanism is an important and challenging subject in the field of sports medicine. Exercise-induced fatigue refers to the physiological process in which the body’s functional ability or work efficiency declines and cannot be maintained at a specific level during exercise. With the improvement of the modern competitive sports level and the increasingly fierce competition, the athletes have to bear more and more loads in sports training, and the probability of sports fatigue is also higher. Appropriate sports fatigue and reasonable recovery methods can promote the improvement of athletes’ functional level; on the contrary, excessive fatigue not only affects the training effect but may also cause various dysfunctions, which may damage the athletes’ health. Therefore, understanding the mechanism of sports fatigue is of positive significance for accelerating the elimination of sports fatigue. The purpose of this paper is to study the progress of muscle proteomics in sports. Since each athlete has individual differences, different levels of muscle function corresponding to the left lower limb will produce different EMG signals. Static experiments and random visual stimulation evaluation experiments were performed on the left lower limbs of athletes, and they were coordinated with the right lower limbs, and then the left and right lower limbs were compared with the same muscle-weighted RMS (Recipe Management System) and IEMG (Comprehensive electromyography). Experimental results show that using the statistical method of single-factor variance analysis to the same muscles in two states of RMS was analyzed, respectively, under the two states of differences between muscle electromyography IEMG were analyzed, finally, the muscle integral electrical values on the contribution rate of extent of each muscle under the two states are analyzed. For one-way ANOVA, this study defined the significance level of the difference analysis between groups as P < 0.05 . P < 0.05 is a small probability event, indicating that the possibility of an event occurring is very small, so it is considered that the event is unlikely to occur. A low-probability event is an event that has a low probability of occurring. Then, it is almost impossible to happen in one experiment, but it is bound to happen in many repeated experiments. With the continuous improvement of existing technologies and the emergence of more new technologies, proteomics research will make greater contributions to elucidate the mechanism of exercise on skeletal muscle remodeling and its improvement on health.

Distributed Simulation System for Athletes' Mental Health in the Internet of Things Environment.

Psychological troubles in training competitions mainly include worry about mistakes, long-term lack of improvement in sports performance, and lack of confidence in competitions. The main troubles in daily study and life are future career development and life planning, injury and illness, insomnia, and poor emotional control. Athletes are interested in psychological skills training, hobby training, interpersonal communication and other coaching content to improve sports performance. Athletes tend to prefer one-to-one psychological counseling and group counseling activities; there are differences in the psychological distress, coping styles and expected psychological counseling content of athletes in different age groups and events. This paper firstly introduces the important role of psychological quality education in modern competitive sports. The influencing factors of athletes' psychological quality were analyzed. At the same time, combined with relevant practical experience, it starts from various perspectives and aspects such as improving the scientific literacy of coaches and building a harmonious atmosphere for training and competition. This paper puts forward some effective strategies to strengthen athletes' psychological quality education and improve sports performance. In addition, it expounds the author's understanding of this, hoping to contribute to the practice of athletes' psychological quality education.

Physical Training Information System of College Sports Based on Big Data Mobile Terminal

The development of information technology is changing all walks of life. People’s health problem is more and more prominent; people begin to talk about the reform of college sports training. Sports no longer rely on individual games, but on the comprehensive strength of science and technology competition. The fierce competition for Olympic gold medal in modern competitive sports is largely due to the competition of scientific and technological strength of various countries. China has also conducted a lot of research on sports information and made some achievements. Through the investigation, we know that, at present, the provincial level sports teams have established the relevant sports training information management system, which is very effective. The latest scientific and technological achievements are combined with sports to establish the university sports information system. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the university sports physical training information system based on big data mobile terminal, study the big data embedded system, improve the effect of sports skills training, and meet the social demand for high skilled sports talents. This paper uses the literature method, experimental investigation method, and big data spectral clustering algorithm-related experiments to study the advantages of big data and uses the value of big data and embedded system model to study the university sports physical fitness training information system based on big data mobile terminal. The results show that 40.6% of college students spend more time in physical exercise, based on the application of big data embedded system in college sports training; it is of great significance to arrange sports training methods to improve students’ sports training performance.

Digitalization of Cross‐Country Skiing Training Based on Multisensor Combination

The status and role of science and technology in the field of modern competitive sports have become increasingly prominent. The construction of a scientific training command system is of great significance for improving the scientific level of the training process and deepening the digital cognition of ski training. This paper is based on the multisensor combination to conduct a digital research on cross‐country skiing training, aiming to conduct in‐depth research on the realization of human motion capture and the theory of motion inertial sensing. To build a scientific, formal, and malleable ski training program, the requirements for data acquisition, recording, and analysis are quite strict. For this, it is necessary to use scientific and reasonable tools combined with multiple algorithms to process information and data. During the experiment, accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers are selected as sensors to receive motion information, and recognition algorithms for identifying weightlessness, hybrid filtering algorithm, displacement estimation algorithm, and kinematic principles are adapted to process multisensor data using information integration technology. A human body motion model was established based on kinematic principles, and a cross‐country skiing motion measurement program was designed. The experimental results show that, according to the combination of multisensing and video platform, the athlete’s posture prediction is adjusted, and the action on the track is more consistent, which can accelerate the athlete’s skiing speed and the size of the inclination angle to a large extent. It can affect the direction of the athlete’s borrowing force and the adjustment of gravity during the exercise. The tilt angle is expanded from 135° to 170°, and it can maintain good continuity during the exercise.

Cheating and gaming the system in ancient athletics

ABSTRACT The contradictions and ambiguities in, admiration for, and potential benefits derived from cheating in modern athletics have numerous parallels in ancient Greek culture. Because both ancient and modern competitive sports share common structures and behavioral patterns that enable cheating, viewing attitudes of the ancients provides a useful lens through which to assess our own ambivalent responses to rule-breaking today. This paper traces the growth of ancient sports and the financial and personal rewards that motivated many athletes to game the system. Numerous examples of athletes and the parents of athletes who sought success at all costs indicate that ancient sports cheating was not so distant from cheating in modern sports.

Genetics and the Elite Athlete: Our Understanding in 2020.

Modern competitive sport has evolved so much that athletes would go to great extremes to develop themselves into champions; medicine has also evolved to the point that many genetic elements have been identified to be associated with specific athletic traits, and genetic alterations are also possible. The current review examines the published literature and looks at three important factors: genetic polymorphism influencing sporting ability, gene doping and genetic tendency to injury. The ACTN3 gene has an influence on type II muscle fibres, with the R allele being advantageous to power sports like sprinting and the XX genotype being associated with lower muscle strength and sprinting ability. The ACE gene polymorphisms are associated with cardio-respiratory efficiency and could influence endurance athletes. Many other genes are being looked at, with specific focus on those that are potentially related to enhancement of athletic ability. Recognition of these specific gene polymorphisms brings into play the concept of genetic engineering in athletes, which constitutes gene doping and is outlawed. This has the potential to develop into the next big threat in elite sports; gene doping could have dangerous and even fatal outcomes, as the knowledge of gene therapy is still in its infancy. Genetic predisposition to injury is also being identified; recent publications have increased the awareness of gene polymorphisms predisposing to injuries of ligaments and tendons due to influence on collagen structure and extracellular matrix. Ongoing work is looking at identifying the same genes from different races and different sexes to see if there are quantitative racial or sexual differences. All of the above have led to serious ethical concerns; in the twenty-first century some sports associations and some countries are looking at genetic testing for their players. Unfortunately, the science is still developing, and the experience of its application is limited worldwide. Nevertheless, this field has caught the imagination of both the public and the sportsperson, and hence the concerned doctors should be aware of the potential problems and current issues involved in understanding genetic traits and polymorphisms, genetic testing and genetic engineering.

EVALUATION OF EMOTIONAL MATURITY AMONG SUB-ELITE FOOTBALL PLAYERS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF PERFORMANCE

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the emotional maturity among the school, college and club level sub-elite football players. For this purpose total three hundred (N=300) football players (100 school level, 100 college level and 100 club level) were selected to collect the data from various football centers of Punjab. The age of players ranged between 15 to 25 years. Emotional Maturity of the football players was assessed with the help of Emotional Maturity Scale given by Singh and Bhargava (1990). The results of One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) revealed significant differences (p<0.05) on sub-variable personality disintegration among school, college and club level football players. Post-hoc analysis revealed that college level football players had significantly better mean score on personality disintegration (p<0.05) than the school level football players. However, no significant differences were reported on emotional instability, emotional regression, social maladjustment, lack of independence and emotional maturity (total) among the school, college and club level football players. As per need of modern competitive sports that it is recommended to introduce systematic psychological training to school, college and club level players for better performance in their game or event. Article visualizations:

Social Democratic and Communist Influences on Workers' Sport across Europe (1893–1939)

At the outbreak of the First World War, the worker sports movement in the German Empire comprised about half a million members altogether. With its diverse offering, it was an essential component of the social democratic (sub)culture, which had a strong influence in working-class circles. In the democratic societies of France and Great Britain, however, the idea of linking proletarian sport to socialist aims was anything but popular. After the First World War, in most cases, the worker sports movement, divided into a socialist and a communist camp, continued to fight a losing battle against the so-called ‘bourgeois' sports associations (which included a large number of workers), even if the leaders of worker sport associations indulged their members' wishes and adapted their sports programme to the bourgeois model of modern competitive sport. From a cross-European perspective, the present study primarily examines the influences of the socialist/social democratic and the communist movements on workers' opt...

“None of the Kids are Allowed to Eat Junk at the Pool": Discourses of "Optimal Nutrition" in Competitive Youth Swimming and the Impact on Athlete Welfare

In modern competitive sport, athletic success is posited as a result of more than simply being physically fit (Johns and Johns, 2000; Romana, 2010). Rather, understandings of the ‘best’ way to physically prepare as an athlete, underpinned by bio-scientific discourses of performance that emphasize rationalistic concepts of productivity, efficiency and conformity, have come to attribute certain meanings to athletes’ preparation, including that they must comply with strict training regimes and controlled lifestyles to achieve success (Lang, 2010; Potrac et al., 2000). Within this, ensuring ‘appropriate’ nutritional intake is considered crucial. However, knowledge of coaches’ discourses in relation to athlete development and how they enact this in their practice is under-researched (Jones, Glintmeyer and McKenzie, 2005), particularly in relation to coaches’ work with child athletes and coaches’ understandings and enacting of discourses of athlete nutrition. This paper aims to shed light on the discourses coaches draw on in relation to athlete nutrition and how they enact these in their practice to inform and enhance youth coaching practice. It reports the findings from an ethnographic study into coaches’ understandings of good practice when working with competitive youth swimmers. The study comprised an ethnography of three competitive youth swimming clubs at different levels of the performance spectrum. One key finding was that coaches considered it good practice to educate youth athletes about what they referred to as ‘good’ or ‘optimal’ nutrition and consequently, particularly among coaches at the elite level, they enforced strict dietary rules to achieve this. The consequences of such practices are discussed in relation to the health and wellbeing of (child) athletes.

Impact of New Composite Material Technology on the Performance of the Tennis Rackets

With the continues improving of people's living standards, more and more people work out in all kinds of sports fields beyond the busy work. On the other hand, the development of the modern competitive sports also requires that the sports experts should not only strive for the scientific training, but should also pay much attention on the improvement and development of the sports equipment at the same time, which makes the sports equipment market have achieved unprecedented prosperity. This paper introduces the application of the fiber reinforced composite materials in the field of sports equipment, which is described mainly from the advantages of the fiber reinforced composite materials used in sports equipment areas, and from the aspects of the principles of material selection, the product varieties, the application examples and the status.

Unpacking competition: On the possibilities of a minor sport

In this article, I conceptualize defensive playing in table tennis by analyzing it from the viewpoint of affective philosophy (Deleuze and Guattari, 1986, 1987). The spatial and emotional aspects of the atmosphere of such play are investigated through an autoethnography of company table tennis. By using my ownbody as an “instrument of research” (Longhurst et al., 2008), I practically evoke and feed on the tension between modern competitive sport and “sport for all” (Eichberg, 2010). It is suggested that the defensive stance in table tennis might be seen as a trajectory toward a “minor sport” (Deleuze and Guattari, 1986, 1987), i.e. as a mild resistance to the competitive ethos of sport.