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Stories written by athletes: New platforms The Players'Tribune and Bez frází
Mayer, Matěj ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (advisor) ; Turková, Kateřina (referee)
This thesis deals with the projects of ThePlayersTribune.com and its younger Czech equivalent Bezfrazi.cz. Both websites were created in recent years and their ambition is to change the stereotypical view of athletes brought by traditional media. These platforms give athletes the space to present themselves in their own words and also to be a part of the editing process. Athletes on the websites share their life stories, which are very inspiring and often contains overlap beyond the sports environment. Thus, readers can infiltrate to the lives of famous or less-known athletes, and also, thanks to the first-person storytelling, perceive situations from their perspective. No thesis has dealt with this topic, yet, and so this diploma thesis is conceived as a case study, the aim of which was to introduce, describe the functioning and compare both projects. It deals with their significance for sports journalism, the role of the journalist in mediating stories, verifying the facts in stories and the popularity of stories from the sports environment in general. The diploma thesis also includes own classification of typologically identical stories published on the platforms The Players' Tribune and Bez frází. The stories are qualitatively analyzed. The attention is paid mainly to the narrative structure...
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The role of sport in the development of problem gambling: A professional athlete case study
Dočekalová, Pavlína ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Roznerová, Tereza (referee)
This thesis consists of theoretical and empirical parts. The theoretical part explains the basic terms related to gambling, describes the history of games, the definition of the term game and selected forms of gambling. The next chapter is dedicated to pathological gambling, its diagnostics, etiology and pathogenesis of pathological gambling, risk factors that can lead to gambling and consequences of gambling. The following chapter deals with the current situation in the Czech Republic, including legislation and prevalence. The last chapter of the theoretical part describes the impact of sport on society, problems related to sport, focus on football as a social phenomenon and on the athlete's personality. For the research part of the paper qualitative research has been chosen. Based on the narrative of the respondent, a case study has been elaborated, which shows the potential causes and risk factors of problem gambling on one specific example. Keywords - Gambling, sport, case study
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Dietary supplements in sport nutrition
BOČAN, David
Thesis deals with dietary supplements and their use by amateurs and professionals.The theoretical part is in the 1st part devoted to supplements and their legislation,forms and division.To the 2nd part was selected substances used by athletes and further discussed in terms of their function and effects on the organism.Within the general information was drafted in the 3rd part risks related to the use of dietary supplements due to wrong dosage or concentration and the issue of doping. Research was conducted through a questionnaire survey among professionals and amateurs.Questionnaire was created on the server google.cz and distributed in electronically and printed form.Respondents were south in several ways.There were used personal contacts and sending questionnaires to sport clubs.Research group contained 166 respondents-83 amateurs and 83 professionals.For evaluation were used basic statistical tests-pivot tables and chi-square test.The processing of results was made in Microsoft Excel 2013. Besides aims to map the use of supplements by athletes were expressed two hypotheses. The 1st hypothesis: There are statistically significant differences in knowledge of supplements between amateur and professional athletes.The 2nd hypothesis:There are statistically significant differences in the use of supplements between amateur and professional athletes. The 1st hypothesis was rejected.There were no statistically significant differences in knowledge of supplements between amateurs and professionals.The 2nd hypothesis was dealt separately for four seasonsfor the period of preparation before exercise/after exercise and for the period of the season, again before exercise/after exercise.In periods of preparation (before and after exercise) and after exercise in the season, there were statistically significant differences in the use of supplements between amateurs and professionals. In these cases 2nd hypothesis was confirmed.In the period of seasonbefore exercise was hypothesis rejected. In this period was no statistically significant differences in the use of supplements between amateurs and professionals. In the next question they were asked about learning about supplements.Most of the information were received from teammate/colleague. In the next part were surveyed effects of various factors for the purchase of supplements on a scale of 0 points (least)-10 points (most influence). Price is a factor that rather affects athletes but more the group of amateurs.Quality has a great influence on both groups. The country of origin is a factor which has by amateurs the largest representation at the point 0. Professionals find it like rather affecting. Brand name is a factor in both groups rather affecting. The package (label) doesn't rather affects athletes,more on amateurs. Recommendations known and previous experience are important for both groups of athletes.The influence of habit is not clear, almost all points are represented by the same ratio of votes. Discount and advertising are factors that affect athletes rather not.Influence expert forums and reviews on amateurs is not clear, professionals voted the most mean value. The most common reasons for using supplements are for both groups regeneration, energy source,adding vitamins and joint nutrition.Amateurs monthly invest in the purchase of dietary supplements less (500 CZK),professionals 500 or 1000 CZK. The most preferred forms of supplements are tablets,powders,capsules and liquids,including beverages.Sticks and gels are used more by professionals. Most of respondents use supplements by recommendation exactly or rather. The most common place of purchase supplements are for professionals specialized stores and for both groups also the Internet. Thesis could serve as an information resource for athletes to clarify that dietary supplements should take depending on what they want to achieve.Also it could be used as study material for courses dealing with nutrition and sport.
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Statistical Analysis of Wages Diffraction of Professional Athletes
Chytka, David ; Bílková, Diana (advisor) ; Löster, Tomáš (referee)
This paper is using the method multidimensional analysis of data on a group of variables which are characterized by the performance of professional athletes. The meaning of this is to find the correct dimension of data for broader quantification. In the theoretical part of this paper I am describing the main goals and the principles of factor and cluster analysis. Furthermore in this part they are broken down the preconditions for the correct use of instruments of the mentioned analysis and they are presented models of each method. In the practical chapter, first there is a comparison of athletes from five professional leagues from the perspective of the wages differential analysis, then with the help of factor analyses a reduction of data is made and from the used data from the finale model a new variable is set. In the last part of this paper I am dividing the objects into groups as described in the cluster analyses with the purpose of further analyzing these clusters.
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