Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Athletes in Olympic Sports in Europe

Understanding - evaluating - improving

Mittag, Jürgen / Maximilian Seltmann / Lorenz Fiege / Leanne O'Leary / Pawel Zembura / Luis Haas / Thiago Santos / Vanja Smokvina / Paulina Tomczyk / Manfred Lämmer / Sönke Schadwinkel
Universität Rijeka, Kroatien, 2022
ISBN: 978 953 8034-49 7 (978-953-8034-48-0)
170 pages

The scope of this research addresses elite athletes who practice, play and compete in sports which are organised outside of professional leagues and for whom the Olympic Games constitute the pinnacle of the sporting stage. Accordingly, the elite-level athletes of relevance for this study usually do not have an employment contract with a professional club. Other conceptualisations referring to the athletes of interest, herein referred to as athletes in Olympic sports or Olympic elite athletes, also use labels such as semi- professionals, elite athletes or amateurs. The scope of the study encompasses an approximate number of 25, 000 elite athletes in Olympic sports. This number includes participants in the last two Olympic Games (winter 2022 and summer 2021) and, where such data are available, athletes of a national elite sport or cadre system, as well as national teams.

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