Coachwise: Your order helps develop and advance sport

This book gives a full introduction to the phenomenon of the pursuit of excellence in sport, giving you a detailed grasp of the key issues faced today. You can look at the concept in excellence in more detail, exploring major issues, including:

• the history and tradition of sporting excellence
• the future for high-performance sport
• other current issues and debates, including drugs in sport
• the historical, social, political and economic impacts of sporting excellence in the UK.

Introduction

1. Sporting Excellence - the Concept
2. Sporting Excellence - an Historical Overview
3. The Long Winding Path- Sport Excellence in the UK 1950-1990
4. Atlanta 1996 - an Olympic Failure Too Far
5. Comparative Study - Four Case Studies a. Australia: Why Are They Winning? b. Vive la France c. USA - No 1 d. The GDR
6. World Class at Long Last - UK Sport Excellence 2000+
7. Win at All costs? - the Art of Gamesmanship
8. Citius, Altius, Fortius, Pharmacus - Drugs in Élite Sport
9. What the Future Holds
10. Current View Contacts for Further Research

Michael Hill is Chief Examiner for AS and A Level PE at Edexcel, and Director of Physical and Leisure Education at the City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College, UK.