2020
DOI: 10.52165/sgj.12.3.367-380
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“Puppets” in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics: The Coach-Gymnast Relationship From Pierre Bourdieu’s Lens

Abstract: In Women's Artistic Gymnastics (WAG), athletes can be coach dependent, becoming submissive and this scenario may reflect subordination, harassment and abuse. This is worrying, because gymnasts are usually children. However, we  argue that coach conduct depends on complex interactions. Thus, we analyzed how the coach-gymnast relationship is built. We used Pierre Bourdieu's categories to argue our reflections. We identified that the domination forms in the coach-gymnast relationship are responsible for shaping l… Show more

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“…Artistic Gymnastics (GA) aims to bring together complexity and perfection in gymnasts' execution of movements (Costa, Marques, Oliveira, & Nunomura, 2020). The coach's role is even more complex, since she must also create a safe environment in which the teaching-learning process of new acrobatics takes place while it is inevitable that some manual help and closeness between the coach and the gymnast will occur (Barker-Ruchti & Tinning, 2010).…”
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“…Artistic Gymnastics (GA) aims to bring together complexity and perfection in gymnasts' execution of movements (Costa, Marques, Oliveira, & Nunomura, 2020). The coach's role is even more complex, since she must also create a safe environment in which the teaching-learning process of new acrobatics takes place while it is inevitable that some manual help and closeness between the coach and the gymnast will occur (Barker-Ruchti & Tinning, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In their studies, Côté, Salmela, Trudel, Baria, & Russell (1995) and Dowdell (2010) were the first to focus on AG coaches and provide an insight into the complexity of performance in this sport. Subsequently, several other studies have advanced this theme by investigating, for example, the intervention of AG coaches through the relationships established with the athletes (Costa et al, 2020;Oliveira, Bortoleto, & Nunomura, 2017); the coaches' level of knowledge about the motivational factors of athletes (Nunomura, Okade, & Carrara, 2012), and the knowledge required for teaching…”
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“…The prepubertal child has the advantage of a higher power to weight ratio, thus the prepubertal physique has become favoured, to enhance the potential to perform difficult acrobatics which require significant strength. It was about this time that male coaches also increasingly became involved in training of female gymnasts [10,11,12].…”
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“…How do we find a way forward and how do we develop best practice? We suggest that this area of concern requires not just reviews and enquiries but the following: sound research into child welfare and wellbeing in sport and elite sport to develop methods of re-incorporating parental voices and a fresh emphasis on wellbeing and child development into the elite sports environment while supporting child athletes to develop their own voices [12,13]; new approaches to governance and safeguarding in club and elite level sports which is more focussed on preventative and developmentally sound strategies to help children to grow and mature within positive, healthy sporting environments [7,8,11,13]; and increased co-working between mental health specialists (including psychiatrists), child development experts and the sports community to enhance the wellbeing of all children engaging in sport, as well as supporting those who are elite athletes to perform at the highest levels without paying an unacceptable price for their success.…”
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