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SCIENCE & SPORTS
Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages 158-161Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scispo.2015.08.004
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Relative age; Athletes; Basketball
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- Federal University of Ouro Preto
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Objective. - To investigate the relative age effect (RAE) in Olympic basketball athletes, related to sex, continent and country. Methods. - The sample was composed of 300 athletes who have competed in the London 2012 Olympic Games. Athletes' date of birth was split into quartiles (trimester of born). For data analysis, Chit test was used with the level of significance set at 5%. Results. - The RAE was not observed by the analysis for sex and continent. However, the RAE was found in French athletes (x(2) = 11.333; P = 0.01), with more athletes born on the second quartile. We can conclude that the RAE is not present in Olympic basketball athletes, except on those French ones. (C) 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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