East Germany
- Created by: FranWilliams
- Created on: 03-05-17 16:03
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- Talent ID
- Children as young as 7 yrs
- East Germany
- Youth Sport Boarding Schools
- top coaches
- supplying full-time jobs
- developing advanced training techniques
- large, annual competitions
- if they didn't perform well they were cut
- SPARTAKIAD
- sponsored by industry and workers unions
- Incorporate athletic training into the lessons
- 6:2 hours of sport to academic study
- giving athletes little career prospects outside of sport
- 6:2 hours of sport to academic study
- Specialised training programmes
- state of the art facilities
- university pathways
- testing new techniques or equipment
- developed grassroot to excellence pathwy
- top coaches
- Sporting achievement demonstrated power
- east germany supported and funded by USSR
- aim to sell communism to the rest of the world
- quality of life was poor
- promising athletes a privileged lifestyle was insentive
- Deutsche Demokratische Republik
- provided a lot of funding to elite sport
- encourages illegal methods to achieve success
- only showed the west what they wanted to, not everything
- 'shop window'
- berlin wall kept the east concealed
- east german female athletes borke numberous world records
- after 20 years
- Youth Sport Boarding Schools
- tested for their sporting ability
- to find an individuals most suited sport
- scientifically based
- identifying aspiring young athletes
- if selected, sent to a specialist sport boarding school
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