The Middle Distance Athletes ' in Oromia Police Club; Practice and Challenges
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2018-07-04
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Addis Ababa University
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Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involves competitive events like walking, running, jumping, and throwing. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running andrace walking.Thus,the main purpose of this study was to investigatethe middle distance Athletes’ inOromia Police Club practiceand challenges in line with talent identification, the major challenging factorsand possible solutions of coaching middle distance runners in Oromia Policeclub. To achieve this goal the researcher used descriptive research designdepending up on the research questions and the objectives set in this study. To conduct this study, descriptive type of researchdesignand purposively used censussampling techniques were used. The data were collected through questionnaire, semi-structured interview and document review. The samples were 4 coaches and 33 athletes altogether 37 target groups were selected purposivelyin censussince the number of the staff were small in number. Data analysis was made using frequency counts, percentages and analysis of documents by both quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings(result)of the study indicate that proper facilitations and practices for middle distance runners resulted in good performance in the club. However, the practices and performances of the athletics club were challenged in a number of problems likecoaching problems, givingconstructive feedbacks, lack of effective communication skills, understanding the context ofathletes, lack of conducive environment, lack of qualified and experienced coach andlack of training.So, possible and relative solutions supposed to lessen the problems are dealing with the concerned bodies and stakeholders by increasing the commitment of the athletes, scaling up best practices, prepare ways of own talent identification criteria, club manager ought tobe given duty and professional freedom, coaches and managers need to work together to bring national sprite, up gardening the coaches level, financial support (incentive), and providing medical support.
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Middle Distance, Challenges, Athletes, Athletics, Club