Direct support for athletes from the armed forces in successful European sporting nations

Andreas Weber and Veerle De Bosscher

Chapter 12 in Sport Management in Europe, 2025, pp 178-193 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The armed forces are an important component in many countries’ elite sport support systems, as they employ numerous athletes under special contracts that provide excellent conditions for training and competing. In this chapter, we use the armed forces as an example to explore central government's impact on national sport policy and to show how public goals and public funding affect sport policymaking. To this end, we discuss relevant concepts and present the SPLISS model as a valuable framework for analyzing national sport systems. We then describe athlete support programmes within the armed forces of France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland to illustrate how public actors in competitive sporting nations support elite athletes.

Keywords: National sport policymaking; Armed forces; Athlete support; SPLISS-framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035333134
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