ABOUT BOOK

"In recent years there has been an increased focus on the importance of the environment ~for the development of elite athletes. In order to understand the factors that contribute ~to or limit an athlete’s sporting development, it is not enough to study only the individual but ~the whole environment in which the athlete develops. The purpose of this chapter is to investigate ~what characterizes a successful elite sport environment in Danish badminton. An elite ~sports environment that continuously manages to create senior results at the highest international ~level and win medals at the European championships, the World championships and ~the Olympics. The study was organized as a case study of the national elite sports center in ~Badminton Denmark (BD). Data was based on interviews with players, coaches and managers, ~observations on training and in competitions, meetings and analysis of documents. The ~environment was centered on self-understanding based on “us against the rest of the world” and a fundamental value in the environment was to create intelligent players while focusing ~on individual development through high training quality. The organizational culture was ~characterized by being: 1) a well documented, quality oriented and dialogue-based learning ~environment, 2) an environment with hard competition and 3) an environment with proximal ~role models.""De seneste år har der været stigende fokus på miljøets betydning for udvikling af ~eliteidrætsudøvere. Det er sket ud fra en erkendelse af, at hvis man ønsker at forstå de faktorer, ~der medvirker til eller begrænser en udøvers sportslige udvikling, er det ikke nok kun at ~studere den enkelte atlet, men hele miljøet, som udøveren udvikler sig i. Formålet med dette ~kapitel er at undersøge, hvad der karakteriserer et succesfuldt eliteidrætsmiljø i dansk badminton, ~dvs. et eliteidrætsmiljø, der kontinuerligt formår at skabe seniorresultater på højeste ~internationale niveau og vinde medaljer ved EM, VM og OL. Undersøgelsen var et casestudie ~af eliteidrætsmiljøet i Badminton Danmark (BD). Der er indsamlet data fra interviews med ~spillere, trænere og ledere, observationer under træning og turneringer, interne møder og analyse ~af dokumenter. Miljøet var centreret omkring en selvforståelse baseret på ”os mod resten ~af verden”, og en grundlæggende værdi i miljøet var at skabe intelligente spillere og samtidig ~have fokus på individuel udvikling igennem høj træningskvalitet. Organisationskulturen var ~konstrueret som: 1) et veldokumenteret, kvalitetsorienteret og dialogbaseret læringsmiljø, 2) ~et miljø med hård intern konkurrence og 3) et miljø med nære rollemodeller."~