Professional Athletes and their Duty to be Role Models

Lynch, Sandra; Adair, Daryl; Jonson, Paul

doi:10.1108/s1529-209620140000012006

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“…The interview findings highlighted that the competitive athletes use modelling of professional athletes' behaviour to obtain information on which heat mitigation strategies to use. It is common for fans of elite/professional athletes to mimic behavioural cues (Lynch et al, 2014 ) or use copying as an effective skill development technique (Abraham and Collins, 2011 ). However, the use of modelling to determine heat mitigation strategies was a novel finding of the current study.…”

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The Type of Per-Cooling Strategies Currently Employed by Competitive and Professional Cyclists-Triathletes During Training and Competition Are Condition (Dry vs. Humid) Dependant

Bayne¹,

Racinais²,

Mileva³

et al. 2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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PurposeTo investigate cooling strategies employed by athletes (cyclists-triathletes) during training and competition in hot and dry (HD) and hot and humid (HH) conditions.MethodsThirty-five athletes completed an online questionnaire on the type, timing, and justification of cooling strategies employed during past training and/or competitions in HD and HH conditions. In addition, 3 athletes also completed a one-to-one follow-up interview.ResultsComparisons between strategies employed in all conditions were based on N = 14 (40%). Cold-water pouring was the most employed (N = 4; 21%) strategy during training and/or competing in hot conditions. The timing of the strategies employed was based on pitstops only (N = 7; 50%). The justification for strategies employed was based on trial and error (N = 9, 42.85%: N = 10, 47.61%). All athletes rated strategies employed as 1 (“not effective for minimising performance impairments and heat-related illnesses”). Comparisons between HD and HH were based on N = 21 (60%), who employed different strategies based on condition. Cold-water ingestion was the most employed (N = 9, 43%) strategy in HD, whereas a combination of cold-water ingestion and pouring was the most employed (N = 9, 43%) strategy in HH. The timing of strategies employed in the HD split was pre-planned by distance but was modified based on how athletes felt during (N = 8, 38%), and pre-planned by distance and pit stops (N = 8, 38%). The timing of strategies employed in HH was pre-planned based on distance and how athletes felt during (N = 9, 42%). About 57% (N = 12) of the 60% (N = 21) perceived effectiveness in HD and HH as 3 (“Sometimes effective and sometimes not effective”), whereas 43% (N = 9) of the 60% (N = 21) perceived effectiveness in HD and HH as 4 (“Effective for minimising performance impairments”).ConclusionCold-water ingestion is the preferred strategy by athletes in HD compared to a combination of cold-water ingestion and pouring in HH conditions. All strategies were pre-planned and trialled based on distance and how athletes felt during training and/or competition. These strategies were perceived as effective for minimising performance impairments, but not heat-related illnesses. Future studies should evaluate the effectiveness of these cooling strategies on performance and thermoregulatory responses in HD and HH conditions.

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The Type of Per-Cooling Strategies Currently Employed by Competitive and Professional Cyclists-Triathletes During Training and Competition Are Condition (Dry vs. Humid) Dependant

Bayne¹,

Racinais²,

Mileva³

et al. 2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…Likewise, due to a player’s specific role on a sports team, sport CSR ‘occurs’ at an individual level as athletes are often expected to leverage their visibility and resources to promote social change, simultaneously garnering ‘positive associations for their organization’, including their teams and corporate sponsors (Babiak et al, 2013: 221). Pressure often comes from fans, coaches, league and team owners, sponsors, communities, peers, or society at large (Babiak et al, 2013) as individuals claim athletes have a moral obligation to serve as role models (Lynch et al, 2014). Athletes may also autonomously decide to become involved in societal matters, although an athlete’s decision to exercise social responsibility by speaking out in favor of his or her personal moral positions could jeopardize sponsorship deals and public perception.…”

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‘For the game, for the world’: An analysis of FIFA’s CSR initiatives

Woods

Stokes

2019

Public Relations Inquiry

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Given the significant and often negative impacts of sport mega-events on host nations, including high costs and lingering environmental challenges, many event organizers, such as the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), began implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives to generate positive effects while lessening negative perceptions. Despite the growing body of literature examining the practice of sport CSR, research on how global governing sport agencies implement and adapt these programs to reflect the culture of the host is lacking. This study begins to address this gap by exploring how FIFA tailored its CSR initiatives for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and 2014 event in Brazil. Engaging in CSR is already a daunting task. For FIFA, this challenge was compounded because of the host nations' complex social, political, and economic concerns, along with skepticism surrounding FIFA's efforts because of its history of corruption, which recently culminated in an organizational scandal that prompted arrests of high-ranking officials and temporary banishment of its former president. To better investigate CSR using a critical lens, we draw from interdisciplinary research and employ a multi-case study approach to analyze FIFA's CSR initiatives, arguing that these efforts largely failed to reflect cultural considerations, providing little benefit to Brazilians and South Africans. In doing so, we build upon Zaharna's in-awareness approach to public relations by merging it with critical CSR research, demonstrating the need for sponsoring organizations to follow an in-awareness approach when practicing international CSR while also adopting

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“…Of course not' (Wellman 2003, 333;cf. also Feezell 2005;Jones 2011;Lynch, Adair, and Jonson 2014;Spurgin 2012).…”

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Shame and the sports fan

Archer

Matheson

2019

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport

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Sports fans sometimes feel shame for their team's moral transgressions. In this paper, we investigate this phenomenon. We offer an account of sports fan shame in terms of collective shame. We argue that this account is superior to accounts of sports fan shame in terms of shame for others and shame for oneself. We then argue that accepting the role that sports stars play in bringing about the collective shame amongst their fans provides a new way of justifying the claim that sport stars are subject to special moral obligations.

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Professional Athletes and their Duty to be Role Models

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

The Type of Per-Cooling Strategies Currently Employed by Competitive and Professional Cyclists-Triathletes During Training and Competition Are Condition (Dry vs. Humid) Dependant

The Type of Per-Cooling Strategies Currently Employed by Competitive and Professional Cyclists-Triathletes During Training and Competition Are Condition (Dry vs. Humid) Dependant

‘For the game, for the world’: An analysis of FIFA’s CSR initiatives

Shame and the sports fan

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