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IV. Why We Play Sport and Why We Stop ................................................................... 41 Recognizing Child Developmental Stages in Sport ..........................................................43 Threats to Sport—Why Children and Youth Stop Playing ...............................................44 The Promise and Perils of Specialization .......................................................................45 Threats to Girls’ Participation in Sport ..........................................................................49 V. The Importance of Others in True Sport—Coaches, Parents, Peers, and Celebrity Athletes ...........................................................................................53 The Importance of Coaches and Coaching ....................................................................55 The Coach’s Role in Character Building and Leadership.................................................58 The Importance of Parents and Family in True Sport ......................................................59 Parents and Spectators Behaving Badly—Yeah, You! ...................................................... 61 The Influence of Friends and Peers ................................................................................63 Professional Athletes ...................................................................................................65 VI. Ethics and Values Build True Sport ........................................................................69 Fairness and Fair Play and the Importance of Personal Best ............................................72 The Price of Winning at Any Cost ................................................................................73 Cheating to Win .........................................................................................................75 The Hall of Shame—Doping to Win .............................................................................79 VII. Conclusions: What We Can Do to Achieve True Sport ............................................ 81 References ...................................................................................................................89 True Sport Report USA Team ........................................................................................99 2
Preface Sport plays a big part in our lives—whether through informal play with friends for fun and camaraderie, team competition as student athletes, coaching young athletes, or as parents of children who play sports both informally and in organized leagues. Like so many Americans, we are fans of sport at all levels, including professional, collegiate, Olympic and Paralympic, amateur, and youth. In our roles at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), it is an honor to be a part of helping to preserve the integrity of sport, inspire a commitment to the core principles of true sport, and protect the rights of our U.S. athletes to compete healthy and clean. The entire U.S. Olympic movement has been praised for implementing one of the toughest and most effective anti-doping programs in the world and for making great strides in the advancement of all anti-doping programs. Olympic and Paralympic athletes are recognized as some of the most positive role models in sport today. For the past 12 years, USADA has respectfully and faithfully served the nearly 50 national governing bodies for Olympic, Paralympic, and Pan American sports, as well as the tens of thousands of clean athletes who want and need us to be successful and whose partnerships have been critical to our success. There is nothing quite like sport to bring people together, impart invaluable life skills and tools, and provide unique and profound experiences and adventures. It is undeniably one of our most beloved pastimes and endeavors—woven into the tapestry of our culture and responsible for countless benefits to the vast majority of Americans—in fact, so much so that the rewards and pressures of success in sport can lead some participants to embrace priorities that are seemingly at odds with the potential value of sport. 3
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Page 3: Contents Preface ..................
Page 7: Values Make Differences Dear USADA,
Page 10 and 11: • overzealous parents; • intole
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Page 16 and 17: What We Can Do to Achieve True Spor
Page 18 and 19: Which World Do You Want for Sport?
Page 21 and 22: I. Introduction People have been pl
Page 23 and 24: Those who play or have played sport
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Page 27 and 28: II. The Role of True Sport in Promo
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Page 33 and 34: III. Psychological and Social Benef
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V. The Importance of Others in True
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The Importance of Coaches and Coach
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Studies of Coach Effectiveness Trai
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has found that 10- to 16-year-olds
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sport behavior. When child athletes
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The Influence of Friends and Peers
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Professional Athletes Becoming a pr
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Creating a Landscape of Possibiliti
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VI. Ethics and Values Build True Sp
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Figure 8: Perceptions of Values Mos
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must-play rules, using smaller play
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Figure 9: There Are Sports That Are
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Figure 11: “Yes,” I Have Bent o
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The Hall of Shame— Doping to Win
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VII. Conclusions: What We Can Do to
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sport. And if we let the desire to
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Communities need to ensure that “
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to say “no” to a sport culture
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References 1. USADA. What Sport Mea
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37. Weiss WM. Coaching your parents
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81. Baker J, Logan AJ. Developmenta
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126. Black SJ, Weiss MR. The relati
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170. Arthur-Banning S, Wells MS, Ba
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True Sport USA Report Team USADA’
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and science policy. Before moving t
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Sport in the United States Approxim
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