Gathering narratives: Athletes’ experiences preparing for the Tokyo summer olympic games during a global pandemic

Rogers, Morgan; Werthner, Penny

doi:10.1080/10413200.2022.2032477

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“…Elite/international to world-class athletes are used to meeting the demands of competing in high-pressure environments; these coping strategies adapted from years as elite athletes may have helped parent-athletes cope with the multiple stressors they uniquely faced throughout the pandemic. Further, findings from Rogers and Werthner's ( 24 ) research noted “the importance of being more than an athlete” (p. 1) as a strategy to cope with adversity; thus, our research highlights that the identity of parent may protect athletes from some of the negative effect of stressors.…”

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“…But for others, the postponement marked a “significant career disruption” leading to potential “loss of identity, motivation and meaning” ( 23 ). Rogers and Werthner ( 24 ) highlighted the importance of individual context for elite athletes' experiences preparing for the Tokyo Olympics, highlighting social support, being more than an athlete, and “learning to reflect on one's life” (p. 1).…”

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“…As such, part of this process identifies that an individual's ability to adapt to the challenges and circumstances they encounter is a capacity that develops over time with specific considerations of context. Drawing on the construct of psychological resilience, Rogers and Werthner ( 24 ) aimed to understand athletes' experiences preparing for the Tokyo Olympics and identified the ways in which participants in their study develop resilience. Their findings indicated the importance of life context, the crucial nature of social support, the significance of being more than an athlete, and the importance of learning to reflect on one's life as an athlete and beyond.…”

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Exploring the stress of olympic postponement due to COVID-19 on elite/international and world-class parenting and pregnant runners

Darroch

Smith

Sheppard-Perkins

et al. 2023

Front. Sports Act. Living

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The primary objective of this community-based participatory research is to explore the impacts of COVID-19 and the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on world-class and elite/international-class parenting and pregnant athletes. Participants in this study include 11 female and 10 male parenting and/or pregnant middle and distance runners. Combined, the participants have competed at 26 Olympic Games and 31 World Championships. Drawing on the general concepts of stressors and psychological resilience, we use thematic analysis to develop four themes to understand the stressors for world-class and elite/international-class parenting and pregnant athletes due to COVID-19 and the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: (1) lack of childcare support, (2) family planning, and (3) needing to stay away from sources of COVID—including their children. Despite the stressors identified in the aforementioned themes, we identified a fourth theme: (4) participants demonstrated adaptability to stress in spite of—or due to—their athlete-parent identities.

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Exploring the stress of olympic postponement due to COVID-19 on elite/international and world-class parenting and pregnant runners

Darroch

Smith

Sheppard-Perkins

et al. 2023

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…Among them were financial insecurity, changes to training, and reduced access to facilities and equipment [38]; increases in perceived stress and dysfunctional emotions [10] decreased motivation and concerns about future performance [39] and feeling a loss of access to one's sport, support, and identity as an athlete [40]. These effects on athletes point to a need to better understand these difficult experiences in the context of global adversity [41]. A suitable psychological construct for understanding these events is resilience; this can be used as a framework that is often associated with performance success and positive mental health outcomes [42].…”

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Professional Athletes’ Well-Being: New Challenges in Post-COVID-19 Times

Assa,

Reizer

2023

Behavioral Sciences

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The COVID-19 period was characterized as a traumatic period throughout the world. During the pandemic, sports organizations had to adapt to government rules and social distancing measures frequently and faced a challenging and complex period in keeping their athletes on a normal routine. Many athletes faced uncertainty regarding their present and future competitive context and personal worries, similar to society during the pandemic. Consequently, adverse effects on the mental health and well-being of athletes were reported in individual and team sports. This review seeks to explore the perceived impact of COVID-19 on athletes’ well-being and future considerations. This review suggests professional athletes’ well-being should receive more attention and will be addressed in the future for the benefit of the athletes and not just in favor of performance. Moreover, the emphasis on evidence-based psychological support such as stress management and athletes’ well-being in a high-performance sport context should increase. The post-COVID-19 period highlights the importance of broadening athletic identity into a more holistic scope that includes life–performance balance and personal values outside the sporting context. Lastly, developing and fostering resilience is complex yet fundamental for systems, when considering athletes’ personal context and providing them with professional skills outside of their professional domain.

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“…Whether investigators revealed different findings with different measures remains unknown. Further, some research sampled youth athletes while others recruited senior athletes, and whether age moderates the relationship needs further examination (Rogers & Werthner, 2022). Sport type is also a relevant variable, as contact sports (e.g., basketball, boxing, rugby) versus non-contact sports (e.g., golf, tennis, archery) might moderate the history of stressors-sport injury relationship.…”

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Relationship Between Athletes’ History of Stressors and Sport Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Chyi,

Lu,

Hsieh

et al. 2023

Percept Mot Skills

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A history of stressors in athletes represents psychosocial factors that may lead to sport injury. However, empirical studies have provided varying results for the relationship between stress history and sport injury. We examined prior literature on the stress history - sport injury relationship within a systematic review and, by meta-analysis, we offered a pooled estimate of the strength of this relationship. We searched seven major academic databases (Sportdiscus, Psyinfo, Academic Search Premier, Ovid, Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed) from January 2000 to September 2023 and identified 19 empirical studies that examined injuries in sports contexts for meta-analysis. In 19 empirical studies of moderate to high publication quality, we found moderate heterogeneity (Q(17) = 98.61; p < .001), low sensitivity (I2 77.82–83.77), and low publication bias (Z-value = 7.74; p < .001). Further, using a random effect estimate-r, we found a low but significant correlation between stress history and sport injury, yielding a small overall effect size (ES) of r = .12. Furthermore, moderation analyses found adolescents ( r = .14), contact-sport athletes ( r = .09), non-elite athletes ( r = .13), and non-European athletes (America r = .16; Asia r = .14; Oceania r = .14) to have a relatively higher ES than their counterparts in this stress history/sport injury relationship. We concluded that inevitable life stressors may lead to many negative consequences for athletes, such that sports professionals should provide stress management educational programs to enhance athletes’ health and well-being.

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Gathering narratives: Athletes’ experiences preparing for the Tokyo summer olympic games during a global pandemic

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Exploring the stress of olympic postponement due to COVID-19 on elite/international and world-class parenting and pregnant runners

Exploring the stress of olympic postponement due to COVID-19 on elite/international and world-class parenting and pregnant runners

Professional Athletes’ Well-Being: New Challenges in Post-COVID-19 Times

Relationship Between Athletes’ History of Stressors and Sport Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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