Sports sociology-youth training

Reference no: EM1364560

1.) A privately-owned commercial gymnastics club in your town has had much success in producing outstanding female gymnasts as young as ten years old. The girls at the club practice at least 25 hours a week and often compete on weekends. You've been asked by a friend who has a six-year old daughter if he should pay the annual fees to register his daughter in the club. He wants to know what you think about such clubs and if his daughter would benefit from being a gymnast in the local club. Identify at least three issues you would discuss with him and outline what you'd say about each.

2.) Athletes from an Asian country win many medals in distance events in running and swimming. It is discovered that they use a special herb in their diet, and the herb only grows in the special high-altitude environment in which the Asian runners train. Should the herb be put on the banned-substance list? What are all the issues that need to be considered when answering this question?

Reference no: EM1364560

Questions Cloud

Potential obstacles to establishing change : Explain what potential obstacles do you face in establishing urgency for change within your organization and how might you circumvent these obstacles

Successful professional sport : "Soccer has not become a widely successful professional sport because it isn't American enough." Discuss the accuracy of this statement in light of information from this unit and then explain whether you agree with it or not.

Which currency euro or the yen would you consider riskier : Suppose the dollar exchange rates of the euro and the yen are equally variable. Which currency, the euro or the yen, would you consider riskier.

Compute the degree of operating leverage : Moe & Chris' Delicious Burgers, Corporation., sells food to University Cafeterias for $15 a box. The fixed costs of this operation are $80,000, and variable cost per box is $10.

Sports sociology-youth training : A privately-owned commercial gymnastics club in your town has had much success in producing outstanding female gymnasts as young as ten years old. The girls at the club practice at least 25 hours a week and often compete on weekends.

How has logistics management changed over the past years : How has logistics management changed over the past years? Why has the importance of logistics management been growing over the past few decades?

Which job affords you the highest purchasing power : If you have been offered $137,000 for a job in Los Angeles and $117,000 for a similar job in Dallas, which job affords you the highest purchasing power of the bundle of goods in the price index.

Write an application to calculate the factorials : Write an application that calculates the factorials of 1 through 20. use type long. Display the results in tabular format. What difficulty might prevent you from calculating the factorial of 100?

Describe fee-for service and activity based costing : Discus briefly the activity-based costing (ABC) and explain how ABC can differ from traditional costing approaches? Consider a health care organization with which you are familiar with and it uses ABC model.

User Account

All Pages