Frontiers in Sports and Active Living | Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Original Research

Accepted on 22 Oct 2025

Performance and Asymmetry of Shuffling Tasks at Different Angles and Directions in Collegiate Basketball Players

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Zhan Li
Mengde Lyu
Ling Ding
Meiling Tao
Peng Wang
Chris J Bishop
Yongming Li

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1640120

Original Research

Published on 21 Oct 2025

Positional contrasts in key techniques between men's and women's basketball at the Olympic level

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Yihong Zhang
Jie Wang
Shi Tan

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1657992

411 views

Original Research

Accepted on 20 Oct 2025

AI in Bundesliga Match Analysis – Expected Possession Value (EPV) vs. Expected Goals (xG) to Predict Match Outcomes in Soccer

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Leander Forcher
Leon Forcher
Alexander Woll
Stefan Altmann

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1713852

1,091 views

Original Research

Accepted on 20 Oct 2025

The Association Between Ambient Temperature and Elite Racewalking Performance in the Olympics and World Championships

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Xiangning Zhang
Dandan Cui
zili jiang
wenchao yang

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1681100

Systematic Review

Published on 20 Oct 2025

The performance gut: a key to optimizing performance in high-level athletes: a systematic scoping review

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Junior Carlone
Attilio Parisi
Alessio Fasano

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1641923

946 views

Original Research

Published on 17 Oct 2025

The impact of wearable sports equipment on college students’ physical exercise persistence: a mediated model of physical exercise motivation moderated by social support

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Yufeng Han
Sen Wang
Zhiwen Zhang
Junli Fan

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1691032

963 views

Brief Research Report

Published on 17 Oct 2025

Reliability and criterion validity of the concept 2 SkiErg™ to assess 1,000-m on-snow, time trial performance—a case study

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Brendan J. O'Brien
Ryan Worn
Brad Clark
Matt Spencer

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1631229

949 views

Original Research

Published on 16 Oct 2025

Differences in game-based performance by playing position in young elite male team handball players

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Herbert Wagner
Vanja Radic
Matthias Hinz

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1688078

922 views

Original Research

Published on 15 Oct 2025

Technical classification of professional cycling stages using unsupervised learning: implications for performance variability

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Igor Garcia-Atutxa
Ekaitz Dudagoitia Barrio
Francisca Villanueva-Flores

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1661456

1,058 views

Original Research

Published on 14 Oct 2025

Effect of pacing strategy modification on 200 m performance in athletics

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Takaya Yoshimoto
Yoshihiro Chiba
Soshi Mizukubo
Kentaro Sato
Hayato Ohnuma
Yohei Takai

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1657245

1,670 views

Original Research

Accepted on 13 Oct 2025

Unilateral and Bilateral load-velocity relationships in athletes: evidence from a study in boxers

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Yemin Han
Yiqing Xie
振牛
Jiawang Jia
Zhen Zhang

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1598396

222 views

Original Research

Accepted on 10 Oct 2025

High-intensity interval training modifies energy supply in male artistic gymnastics and improves floor-specific but not pommel horse-specific endurance performance

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Alexander Seemann-Sinn
Peter Rüdrich
Ingo Sandau
Falk Naundorf
Bernd Wolfarth

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1601074

161 views

Original Research

Accepted on 09 Oct 2025

Nonlinear Age Effects on Basketball Player Performance: Insights from Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks in NBA Data

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Yunhan Xiao
Jiahao Wang
Weiping Li
Jiangang Chen
Ning Chang
Yilong Song
Ziying Xu

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1693433

144 views

Original Research

Accepted on 09 Oct 2025

Morphology of Male World Cup and Elite Speed Climbers

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Paweł Draga
Paulina Baran
John Henry Maskell
Paulina Trybek
Dominik Pandurevic
Alexander Sutor

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1679627

114 views

Case Report

Accepted on 09 Oct 2025

Constraint Led Strength & Conditioning for Paralympic Throwers with Skeletal Dysplasia: An Applied Case Study

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Lawrence Judge
Exal Garcia-Carrillo

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1677491

157 views

Original Research

Published on 08 Oct 2025

Stroke rate–stroke length dynamics in elite freestyle swimming: application of kernel density estimation

in Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement

Craig A. Staunton
Jesús J. Ruiz-Navarro
Dennis-Peter Born

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

doi 10.3389/fspor.2025.1656633

1,903 views