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Does Sport Canada's Athlete Assistance Program improve performance in funded swimmers and track-and-field athletes?
Does Sport Canada's Athlete Assistance Program improve performance in funded swimmers and track-and-field athletes?
Sport Canada's Athlete Assistance Program was associated with significant performance improvements in funded swimmers and track-and-field athletes.
May support expanded Athlete Assistance Program funding; leaves open causality and generalizability in this observational cohort.
In order to determine the effectiveness of Sport Canada's (a unit of the Government of Canada) Athlete Assistance Program (AAP), the performance histories (standardized scores) of 371 AAP-funded swimmers ( n = 183) and track-and-field athletes (« = 188) of both genders carded from September 1980 to November 1990 were analyzed. Because of the differences in the absolute performances of males and females, and the differences in standardizing the performances in the two sports, data of the males and females in each sport were analyzed separately. The results showed that carded athletes in each of the four groups improved their performances significantly following the awarding of carding status. Also, swimmers improved more consistently than the track-and-field athletes. For swimmers, younger athletes improved more than the older athletes, while the opposite was true with the track-and-field athletes. Based on these results, related funding policy issues were discussed.
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