Krieger (2013)KRIEGER, Jörg. Fastest, highest, youngest? Analysing the athlete’s experience of the Singapore Youth Olympic Games. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, v. 48, no. 6, p. 706-719, 2013.
|
Eight German competitive athletes aged 16-18 who participated in the YOG-2010. They included five males and three were females who competed in five different sports. |
Kristiansen (2013)KRISTIANSEN, Elsa. Competing for culture: Young Olympians’ narratives from the first winter Youth Olympic Games. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, v. 13, no. 1, p. 29-42, 2013.
|
Nine young athletes from the Norwegian team (three men and six women between the ages of 17 and 18); four athletes were interviewed in Innsbruck after finishing their competitive events early while the other five were interviewed within a few weeks after returning to Norway. |
Parent; Kristiansen; Macintosh (2014)PARENT, Milena; KRISTIANSEN, Elsa; MACINTOSH, Eric. Athletes’ experiences at the Youth Olympic Games: Perceptions, stressors and discourse paradox. Event Management, v. 18, no. 3, p. 303-324, 2014.
|
27 athletes from the Norwegian team (13 women and 14 men) and 28 athletes from the Canadian team (seven women and 21 men). |
Schnitzer; Peters; Pocecco (2014)SCHNITZER, Martin; PETERS, Mike; POCECCO, Elena. Perception of the Culture and Education Programme of the Youth Olympic Games by the Participating Athletes: A Case Study for Innsbruck 2012. International Journal of History of Sport, v. 31, no. 9, p. 1178-1193, 2014.
|
662 young athletes - 346 males (52.3%) and 316 females (47.7%), most of whom were part of the European continent (60%), followed by Asia (19.5%), North America (10.5%) and other continents (6%); of those, 43 athletes from 17 different nations made up the focus groups competing in eight different sports. Interviews were conducted in English, French, German and Russian. |
Peters; Schnitzer (2015)PETERS, Mike; SCHNITZER, Martin. Athletes’ Expectations, Experiences, and Legacies of the Winter Youth Olympic Games Innsbruck 2012. Journal of Convention & Event Tourism, v. 16, no. 2, p. 116-144, 2015.
|
89 participants, including 43 young athletes from 17 different nations competing in eight different sports; the other subjects were coaches, ambassadors, mission chefs or model athletes. Interviews were conducted in English, French, German and Russian. |
Krieger; Kristiansen (2016)KRIEGER, Jörg; KRISTIANSEN, Elsa. Ideology or reality? The awareness of Educational aims and activities amongst German and Norwegian participants of the first summer and winter Youth Olympic Games. Sport in Society, v. 19, no. 10, p. 1503-1517, 2016.
|
22 young athletes including eight Germans aged 16-18 who participated in the YOG-2010 (five males and three females), who competed in six different sports (swimming, jumping, pole vaulting, sailing, fencing, 400-m race) and with different levels of success in YOG competitions (medalists and non-medalists); and ten Norwegian and four German athletes who participated in YOG-2012 and competed in 11 different sports. |
Macintosh; Parent; Culver (2019)MACINTOSH, Eric; PARENT, Milena; CULVER, Diane. Understanding Young Athletes’ Learning at the Youth Olympic Games: A Sport Development. Journal of Sport Management Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2018.1561206. https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2018.15...
|
36 young athletes (15 females and 21 males), representing 24 NOCs, all continents, and 14 sports disciplines. The interviews were conducted in English and French. |