Motivation and high performance sports events: an exploratory investigation of the motives underlying repeated participation

Koronios, Konstantinos; Psiloutsikou, Marina; Kriemadis, Athanasios; Gkatsis, Georgia; Mavromati, Marina

doi:10.1504/ijsmm.2019.10018016

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“…However, research in this area still lacks characterizing performance tests. By contrast, the recent studies have concentrated on potential sport entrepreneurs' motivations to participate in events, which might turn out to be future business opportunities (Koronios et al, 2019).…”

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“…Although some business opportunities can be found in events that potential sport entrepreneurs participate in (see Koronios et al, 2019), Hammerschmidt et al (2019) report a competitive strategy that particularly characterizes sport entrepreneurs' behavior: coopetition. Coopetition is defined as a 'strategy that combines cooperation and competition between firms' (Morris et al, 2007, p. 35).…”

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Sport entrepreneurs’ performance in business

Kauppinen

Escamilla-Fajardo

2020

European Sport Management Quarterly

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Research question: Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is one of the performance measurements in the research on sport entrepreneurship. Another measure of performance studied is coopetition (simultaneous collaboration and competition). This study tested how EO might affect coopetition. Research methods: In total, 106 sport entrepreneurs from the United States participated in a survey. This survey included an experiment measuring participants' coopetition tendency (the dependent variable) and EO (the independent variable). Results and findings: EO affected coopetition. This relationship was negative among sport entrepreneurs who reported training with their potential competitors and positive among sport entrepreneurs who did not report such training. Implications: EO-behaviors (developing sport products, services, techniques, equipment, and practices) can encourage sport entrepreneurs towards coopetition. This might especially be the case for sport entrepreneurs who use their skills acquired from sports that they train or trained alone.

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Sport entrepreneurs’ performance in business

Kauppinen

Escamilla-Fajardo

2020

European Sport Management Quarterly

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Ultra-Cycling– Past, Present, Future: A Narrative Review

Tiemeier,

Nikolaidis,

Chlíbková

et al. 2024

Sports Med - Open

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Background Ultra-endurance events are gaining popularity in multiple exercise disciplines, including cycling. With increasing numbers of ultra-cycling events, aspects influencing participation and performance are of interest to the cycling community. Main body The aim of this narrative review was, therefore, to assess the types of races offered, the characteristics of the cyclists, the fluid and energy balance during the race, the body mass changes after the race, and the parameters that may enhance performance based on existing literature. A literature search was conducted in PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar using the search terms ‘ultracycling’, ‘ultra cycling’, ‘ultra-cycling’, ‘ultra-endurance biking’, ‘ultra-bikers’ and ‘prolonged cycling’. The search yielded 948 results, of which 111 were relevant for this review. The studies were classified according to their research focus and the results were summarized. The results demonstrated changes in physiological parameters, immunological and oxidative processes, as well as in fluid and energy balance. While the individual race with the most published studies was the Race Across America, most races were conducted in Europe, and a trend for an increase in European participants in international races was observed. Performance seems to be affected by characteristics such as age and sex but not by anthropometric parameters such as skin fold thickness. The optimum age for the top performance was around 40 years. Most participants in ultra-cycling events were male, but the number of female athletes has been increasing over the past years. Female athletes are understudied due to their later entry and less prominent participation in ultra-cycling races. A post-race energy deficit after ultra-cycling events was observed. Conclusion Future studies need to investigate the causes for the observed optimum race age around 40 years of age as well as the optimum nutritional supply to close the observed energy gap under consideration of the individual race lengths and conditions. Another research gap to be filled by future studies is the development of strategies to tackle inflammatory processes during the race that may persist in the post-race period.

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