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July 19, 2021

Building a culture of excellence in high performance sport

Highlights In sport, culture can determine a team’s focus and how members communicate and deal with conflict. Culture also establishes norms of acceptable behaviour and directly influences functioning and performance. Own the Podium, alongside partners the Canadian Paralympic Committee and Canadian Olympic Committee, identified sport culture as an important performance factor for Canadian athletes to achieve podium success. The culture of excellence model outlines strategies for sport organizations to improve their sport’s culture with the goal of achieving enhanced performance […]

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The Implications of Cannabis Legalization for Athletes

October 10, 2018

The legalization of cannabis in Canada will have significant implications on the Canadian sport system, ranging from anti-doping policy, to athlete and staff safety and wellbeing, to risk management for organizations. In conjunction with its partners, SIRC will be providing...

Increasing engagement by addressing de-selection practices in youth sport

October 10, 2018

As researchers and educators who have been (and still are!) extensively involved in sport, back to school time also means back to school SPORT time! Through our personal experience and our research, we know firsthand the positive impact that participation...

Issues in Athlete Identification and Selection: Are We Compromising Talent?

October 10, 2018

Despite some important ethical and developmental concerns, early identification and selection is the modus operandi of high performance sport. Most sport systems internationally have limited resources for high performance athlete development and, as a result, have to make predictions about...

A Year in the Making – Reflections on Canada Artistic Swimming’s new name, new brand and commitment to excellence

October 10, 2018

When FINA, the international body that governs aquatics, changed the name of the synchronized swimming discipline to artistic swimming, it sent more than a wave across the sport in Canada. It unleashed a tsunami of activity that has resulted in...

Taking Athlete Development to a New Level: Understanding the Value of a Trauma-Informed Approach

October 10, 2018

Increasing attention in research and practice has focused on the physical and psychological impacts of trauma and violence, for example from living in conflict zones or experiencing family violence. In North America, such work has led to an increased understanding...

The Development of Executive Functions and Social and Emotional Learning Skills Through Sport

October 10, 2018

One of the biggest stories coming out of the 2018 Winter Olympics was the success of the Norwegian Team, who topped the overall medal count with 39 medals (7.33 medals/million population), compared to Canada’s third-place standing with 29 medals (0.81...

Mission Impossible? Not for these 2018 Chefs de Mission

July 11, 2018

2018 has already been an exciting year, with four major international games – the Arctic Winter Games hosted in the South Slave region of the Northwest Territories, Canada (March 18-24, 2018); the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games hosted in PyeongChang,...

Marginal Gains Reconsidered: How Sport Organizations Hold the Key to Boosting Sport Performance

July 11, 2018

The “aggregation of marginal gains” has become such a catchphrase that people have stopped questioning what it means. Science is meant to question, not to follow, and to look for the truth where it otherwise might be missed. What are...

Fostering Leadership in Youth Sport through a Tri-Level Mentoring Model

July 11, 2018

Many coaches in youth sport understand the positive benefits of sport participation, in helping youth adopt social relationships, perseverance, and building life skills. However, it isn’t enough to simply thrust a child into sport and hope they develop character. It...

There is no "I" in IST – An insider look at providing health and performance support to the 2018 Men’s Olympic Hockey Team

July 11, 2018

To the average fan watching international competitions, the finished product delivered to your television or computer screen does not always reveal the enormity of action that happens behind the scenes. Stepping off the ice at the Gangneung Hockey Centre, the...