INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

principles and whether there is a correlation between their
implementation and other factors such as the kind of sport, gender etc.
The young high-performance athletes were asked to evaluate the
implementation of the ethical standards referring to daily training
situations. The results should show whether Olympic and ethical value
concepts are sufficiently taken into consideration when training young
Olympic talents.
3. Methods
Research data were collected through a survey using a
questionnaire, which was filled in under supervision. The
interviewees, 181 students aged between 14 and 19, attend different
sport-orientated schools in Germany (Coubertin-High School Berlin,
Pierre-de-Coubertin-High School Erfurt, Heinrich-Heine-High School
Kaiserslautern, Karthause High School Koblenz and the House of
Athletes at the Olympic Centre Frankfurt-Rhein-Main). The replies
were analysed with the statistics programme SPSS 11.0. The
questionnaire cannot register situation-specific behaviour, so the effect
of the empirical research is limited in this aspect. It was tried to
counteract this problem by taking into consideration the teleological
aspects at the interpretation of the results.
4. Results and Interpretation
4.1 The sample survey
Altogether 181 young high-performance athletes participated in
the survey, 80 of them female (44.2%) and 101 male (55.8%) athletes.
15.5% of the athletes belong to sports with a young high-performance
age (e.g. gymnastics, figure skating, swimming), 30.9% to team sports
and 53.6% to various other sports (athletics, cycling, table tennis,
rowing etc.).
The results of the survey show that the young athletes fulfil
criteria that indicate a critical faculty and the ability to realistically
assess the coaches’ behaviour. Aged 14 to 18 the athletes possess a
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