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Company sports is organized sport activities within companies, occupational groups, trade unions and public agencies, with the goal to improve the working atmosphere. The form of organization is an alternative to the offerings through regular national sport federations and their special federations.
Sports medicine organizations recommend against playing sports that rely on static strength, such as rugby, until age 15. [13] The American Development Model, developed by the International Olympic Committee based on long-term athlete development principles, reserves high-performance work for athletes who are at least 15 years old. [13]
In professional sports, as opposed to amateur sports, participants receive payment for their performance. Professionalism in sport has come to the fore through a combination of developments. Mass media and increased leisure have brought larger audiences, so that sports organizations or teams can command large incomes. [1]
This is a list of professional sports – that is, sports (and, more broadly, non-sport games subject to organized competition) that support one or more systems of professional sports players, sportspeople by occupation. Such sports also have a vibrant community of amateur players, from whom the best rise to become professionals.
Sometimes sports injuries can be so severe that they lead to death. In 2010 48 youths died from sports injuries. [48] The leading causes of death in youth sports are sudden cardiac arrest, concussion, heat illness and external sickling. [49] Cardiac-related deaths are usually due to an undiagnosed cardiovascular disorder. [50]
By the close of the twentieth century, sports analytics had gained significant acceptance by the management of many Major League Baseball clubs, notably the Oakland A's, Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians. At the same time, baseball fans and sports media had begun to adopt sports analytics as a way to understand and report the game.
Sports records and statistics by country (3 C)-Major achievements in sports by nation (19 P) * Sports record progressions (7 C, 1 P) Sports competition records (6 C, 4 P)
Government involvement in sport up until the 1970s was fairly limited with local governments playing a major role through the provision of sporting facilities. [1] However, this changed over the next two decades with an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey in 2001–2002 finding that approximately $2 billion was spent on sport by three levels of government – 10 per cent from the Australian ...