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ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2016

The Great British Medalists Project: A Review of Current Knowledge on the Development of the World's Best Sporting Talent.

Tim Rees, Lew Hardy, Arne Güllich, Bruce Abernethy, Jean Côté, Tim Woodman, Hugh Montgomery, Stewart Laing, Chelsea Warr

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Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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86citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

86 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Talent Identification and Development in Male Futsal: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  3. Impact of the Relative Age Effect on Competition Performance in Basketball: A Qualitative Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Tim ReesDepartment of Sport and Physical Activity, Faculty of Management, Bournemouth University, Dorset House, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK. trees@bournemouth.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5498-0145
Lew HardySport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Bangor University, George Building, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2PZ, UK.
Arne GüllichDepartment of Sport Science, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin Schrödinger Street, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Bruce AbernethySchool of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
Jean CôtéSchool of Kinesiology and Health Studies, SKHS Building 28 Division Street, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N, Canada.
Tim WoodmanSport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Bangor University, George Building, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2PZ, UK.
Hugh MontgomerySchool of Life and Medical Sciences, University College London, Rockefeller Building, 20, University Street, London, WC1E 6DE, UK.
Stewart LaingUK Sport, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF, UK.
Chelsea WarrUK Sport, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The literature base regarding the development of sporting talent is extensive, and includes empirical articles, reviews, position papers, academic books, governing body documents, popular books, unpublished theses and anecdotal evidence, and contains numerous models of talent development. With such a varied body of work, the task for researchers, practitioners and policy makers of generating a clear understanding of what is known and what is thought to be true regarding the development of sporting talent is particularly challenging. Drawing on a wide array of expertise, we address this challenge by avoiding adherence to any specific model or area and by providing a reasoned review across three key overarching topics: (a) the performer; (b) the environment; and (c) practice and training. Within each topic sub-section, we review and calibrate evidence by performance level of the samples. We then conclude each sub-section with a brief summary, a rating of the quality of evidence, a recommendation for practice and suggestions for future research. These serve to highlight both our current level of understanding and our level of confidence in providing practice recommendations, but also point to a need for future studies that could offer evidence regarding the complex interactions that almost certainly exist across domains.

Indexed as

Age FactorsAnthropometryAptitudeCompetitive BehaviorEnvironmentHumansMotivationMotor SkillsPersonalityPhysical Conditioning, HumanSocial SupportSports

Identifiers

PMID26842017
PMCPMC4963454

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