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Learn this properly: Factors Affecting ParticipationA professional team sport has become heavily commercialised, with large income from television broadcasting deals and brand sponsorship.
Discuss the positive and negative effects of commercialisation on a sport. In your answer, refer to how sport, sponsorship and the media depend on one another (the "golden triangle"). (6 marks)
A company agrees to sponsor an individual athlete, paying them money and providing free kit and equipment in return for displaying the company's logo.
(a) State one advantage of this sponsorship to the athlete. (1 mark)
(b) State one advantage to the sponsoring company, and one possible disadvantage to the athlete of relying on sponsorship. (2 marks)
(c) State one way that sponsorship can benefit the sport or event itself (rather than the individual athlete). (1 mark)
During a tennis match, a player deliberately takes a long time between points and questions line calls to break their opponent's concentration, without actually breaking any rules. This is an example of gamesmanship.
(a) Explain the difference between sportsmanship and gamesmanship. (2 marks)
(b) State what is meant by etiquette in sport. (1 mark)
Some athletes are tempted to take performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) to improve their results.
(a) State one reason why an athlete might choose to take performance-enhancing drugs. (1 mark)
(b) State two disadvantages to an athlete of being caught taking performance-enhancing drugs. (2 marks)
Crowd trouble and hooliganism can be a problem at some sporting events.
State two strategies that authorities or clubs can use to reduce hooliganism at matches. (2 marks)
Name the model, made up of sport, sponsorship and the media, that describes how these three elements depend on one another in commercialised sport. (1 mark)