Circumstantial development and athletic excellence: The role of date of birth and birthplace

摘要: Abstract Researchers are only beginning to understand how contextual variables such as date of birth and birthplace affect the development elite athletes. This article considers generality date-of-birth effects in varying sport contexts. The Study 1 examined environmental factors associated with an athlete's size predict likelihood becoming Olympic athlete Canada, United States America, Germany, Kingdom. 2 among athletes playing first professional league Germany. also validity a proxy for early developmental environment by comparing place sports club four German leagues. Results from both studies showed no consistent findings birth. Findings suggested incongruence between location proxies developm...