et puis lutter, toujours
(Jacques Brel)
Monthly Archive for December, 2012
I often write about the difficulty of stress managing . This is not only a problem for athletes but it is becoming increasingly for coaches too. Guardiola has resigned because he felt the need to take a rest period. The coach of Sydney football team, with the arrival of Del Piero, has experienced a period of intense stress and he has resigned. Now it was the turn of Alekno, coach of the Russian national volleyball team, gold in London: he also resigned too much stress. I hope that these stories teach coaches to be coached mainly from the psychological point of view.
Happy New Year
Giovanni Soldini
in search of the records in the two oceans
Exercise should be prescribed by your doctor(http://sante.lefigaro.fr/actualite/2012/11/01/19384-lexercice-physique-devrait-etre-prescrit-sur-ordonnance). It has been proposed in France by Jacques Bazex de l’Academie de medecine, in view of the physical activity program for the Ministry of Health is about to do. Sports prescribed as antibiotics, aspirin or anti-depressants. For some disadvantaged groups should be paid by the State.
According to the Lancet the sedentary lifestyle would be responsible for one death out of 10, as well as tobacco: 5,30 millions.(http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/The_Lancet_study_suggests_inactivity_now_as_deadly_as_smoking).
While here in Italy this issue has not included in any politic agenda, the others go forward with ideas and concrete programs. Even no newspaper has reported this news, which I took from Carlo Nesti: http://www.torinogranata.it/?action=read&idnotizia=33924
“Failure is only due to my fears, inability to tolerate being alone. In this immensity infinity”. (Reinhold Messner, Die weibe Einsamkeit). Of course, it applies to all of us and not just for mountaineers.
Ross Stucker and Jonathan Dugas, experts in sports science who live in Cape Town and Chicago respectively, analyze in depth the main events of athletics, cycling, tennis, Olympics and doping. We can read them in their blog The Science of Sport. They believe that science is nothing without the application and therefore their purpose is to provide analysis of performance sports where there is evidence of how scientific knowledge support and help to explain the athlete results. Of course it also talks about doping and then of how science can be used to alter performance. It’s a site that provides a lot of documented information, with the aim of bringing sports supporters the themes of science.
I leave you with a questionnaire that they have developed to highlight 2012 key events by means of questions related to sports covereb by The Sports Science: http://www.sportsscientists.com/
The new year comes with many important issues in the Italian sport world. On the other hand, the election of the new President of CONI and those of sports federations and sports promotion bodies should allow a discussion of the ideas and agenda of programs to be implemented in the next four years. Here are some topics that I would like to see represented and implemented.
First of all for me is: how sports will help with specific programs to improve the welfare of the citizens.
Second, it is necessary to greatly promote physical activity in childhood, what it needs to do.
Third, all the Italian sport organizations should implement integrated strategies and projects for the common good.
Fourth, the Olympic sport needs new talents, what it will be the Italian national program to identify, develop and support them.
Fifth, how to build, improve and promote the professionalism of sport teachers from the basic level instructors to the international level coaches.
With his arms spread wide and his smile nearly as expansive, Mo Farah was the first man across the finish line in the men’s 5,000-meter final at the London Olympics. The British middle distance runner may not have taken home as many medals as Michael Phelps or dominated quite like Usain Bolt but his euphoric medal run(s) provided one of the most indelible memories from the London Games as well as one of the signature sports moments of 2012.
According to The Associated Press, the Penn State scandal, Lance Armstrong’s cycling ban, NFL bounties, football concussions, replacement NFL officials and Pat Summitt’s retirement were among the Top 10 sports stories of 2012.
