Elite Sport and Sport-for-All

The late Professor Margaret Talbot OBE was President of the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education, and a leading authority on physical education and sportRichard Bailey　is Senior Researcher at the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education, and is a well-known writer, researcher, and public speaker on the intersection of physical activity, sport and human development

• Foreword 1. More Fulfilling Lives Through Sport: An Intersubjective Justification for Balancing Elite Sport and Sport for All 2. Elite sports: what is it good for: the case of EYOF Utrecht 2013 3. Arguments and evidence of bridging elite performance and mass participation sports from an economic perspective 4. The question of the trickle-down effect in Danish sport: Can a relationship between elite sport success and mass participation be identified? 5. Two Solitudes: Grassroots Sport and High Performance Sport in Canada 6. The Problem with the Pyramid: why most models of talent development are flawed 7. Opportunities for ‘all’ versus ‘gold’ for sport and country: a South African discourse 8. The Paralympic Movement and Sport for All: Elite, Recreational and Inclusive Sport for Development 9. Elite Sport and Sport-for-All: Tales of a Small Country 10. Sexual exploitation in women’s sport: Can female athletes respond to it? 11. A Sporting Utopia: easing the essential tension in sport policy