European Journal of Physical Education and Sport

5-7

Authors: Tatiana N. Arsenyeva

The Olympics-2014 voluntary service project is a unique system-forming element in the development of the institute of volunteerism in Russia. The creation of an infrastructure for volunteer preparation will become one of the major legacies of the 2014 Olympic Games. The implementation of the project opens up new vistas in the way of adopting educational programs oriented towards promoting a healthy lifestyle within the youth environment and popularizing the values of volunteerism across the various strata of Russian society.

13-16

Authors: Andrey V. Glushenkov, Marina I. Fomenko

When Volunteers of America was founded in 1896, volunteerism derived from a military context and to “volunteer” one’s time in service to others was a full-time commitment. They volunteered their whole lives to help people in need. This included - not only volunteering their time - but also their hearts, their spirits and their professional prosperity. Today, Volunteers of Russia help million people through programs that are staffed by full-time, paid professionals who have adopted this same ideal of service as their full-time mission. However, that does not mean that they do not also depend on an army of modern-day “volunteers” who offer their free time to support volunteer programs nationwide.

20-22

Authors: Leonid А. Kalinkin, Tamara V. Dolmatova, Dmitry K. Malashenkov, Maria Michel

This article examines, as an important component of the Olympic legacy, the possibility of employing the material-technical base of the Sochi Olympic Games-2014 for staging sports games among volunteers, personnel servicing the Olympic Games, and professional athletes specializing in summer sports. Post-Olympic sports games are expected to facilitate the popularization of mass sports. The author brings forward the idea of staging a sports event called “Sochi-Way”, which would feature summer-and-winter sports based on a scenario that would be brought into action taking account of the landscape and natural environment of Greater Sochi.

28-30

Authors: Aleksandr P. Kvashnin

The article discusses the physiological adaptation of volunteers discharging theirs obligations in the mountain cluster.

36-38

Authors: Dmitry K. Malashenkov, Gennady A. Bobkov, Alexander E. Evtukh, Arkady P. Kozlowski, Vadim N. Morozov, Igor F. Chekirda

This article examines the material and non-material aspects of making use of Olympic legacy. The author looks into existing approaches to assessing economic, ecological, and social effects of staging the Olympic Games and dwells upon one of the aspects of the legacy of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games-2014 – developing and testing federal standards for sports preparation across Olympic sports, which provide for the creation of a basis for forming the medical-biological components of sports preparation.

46-50

Authors: Natalie Martins, Christopher Gas

The article represents prospects, trends and innovations in the development of Sochi as a national center of beach sports.

54-58

Authors: Mikhail M. Polevshchikov, Vladimir E. Afonshin, Valeriy V. Rozhentsov

The author has developed a technology for technical preparation of young athletes in team sports, which facilitates one’s quick mastering rational and effective techniques and helps develop the ability to employ them, facilitates the formation of one’s individual style using these techniques, the streamlining of technical preparation at any stage – from beginners to world-class athletes, and helps boost efficiency while easing the workload for coaches. Team practice is held on a playing field equipped with a dynamic lighting system that divides the field into zones which the athletes have to stay in with a sports implement and perform specific technical actions. The position, form, and area of such zones can be changed programmatically at different speeds and unexpectedly for the athletes. The drill process is filmed with a camera stationed above the playing field; the image is transferred into a computer that records the time instants at which an athlete and/or the sports implement goes out of the bounds of a zone. An athlete is informed of his/her or the implement’s having gone out of the bounds via an additional dynamic lighting system which differs in color from the system used for the zones and/or via sound signals. The number of times the athletes and/or the sports implement go out of the bounds of preset zones is recorded and indicates the level of the athletes’ technical preparedness. To forestall the development of the dynamic stereotype of lowly depressed eyes, which narrows the vision of the field and prevents one from developing one’s playing thinking, the color of the zone of one or several athletes can be changed programmatically at random times. This serves as a signal for the athletes whose zone color does not change to pass one’s implement over to one of the athletes whose zone color has changed. In such drills, athletes get a chance to not only work on preset technical moves but have to watch for changes in zones in which other athletes are staying – this enables one to better see the playing field and develop one’s playing thinking, as one is deciding which other athlete to pass the implement over to.

64-67

Authors: Galina M. Romanova, Andrey V. Apukhtin, Lyudmila A. Beloslutseva

The article is devoted to the current problems and perspectives of business tourism in Sochi. The development of this segment of tourism may attract extra thousands of tourists. Development prospects of Sochi is associated with the forthcoming tourist boom and reincarnation of this local-popular resort into the international tourist destination. Business tourism is supposed to become an integral part of the local market development. The future of business tourism in Sochi will depend of different limits and factors such as ttransport and communication infrastructures, natural and urban environments, openness to tourism, availability and cost of services etc. Sochi has a good potential to become a leader in business travel sector and after the Olympic Games it will substantially increase. The development of business tourism on the local level will reduce seasonality.

76-84

Authors: Alexandr M. Vetitnev, Nadezhda V. Bobina

This article presents the preliminary results of a survey of 1048 residents of the city of Sochi concerning their attitude towards the staging of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. It is revealed that on the whole the staging of the Olympics in Sochi is supported and not supported by an approximately equal number of Sochi residents: 40 % each and 20 % were undecided. The survey results were influenced by respondent gender, age, education, income, and length of residence in the resort.

92-96

Authors: Hmayra T. Zagladina

The article is devoted to the specification of representations about volunteering as a socially significant phenomenon of Russian education, allowing to consider volunteering as an effective tool for strengthening civil society, innovation and modernization development of the country. The author notes the significant impact of volunteering for successful socialization of the individual, the development of pre-profile education, anti-emergence of destructive towards a modern society and state trends in the youth environment.