Question

Evaluate the coverage of sports personalities by the media in relation to the covid-pandemic

Answer 1

With the cancellation of, for example, the Tokyo Olympic Paralympic Games, and the European Soccer Championships, the year 2020 will be recalled more readily for the shifts in the sporting season as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic rather than examples of stellar sporting excellence. Restrictions on travel, physical activity, and mass gatherings because of COVID19 pandemic have had major implications for athletes and players, with restrictions of access to training venues, cancellation of events, and loss of earnings. These implications can have commensurate psychological consequences. In recent weeks, many resources have been made available on this topic, including direct interventions for athletes, and indirect for other stakeholders including coaches and parents. How athletes and partners in sport can collectively cope with such adversity is useful from a service provision perspective and instructive for elucidating our understanding of many topics including emotion regulation, coping skills, resilience, mental health stigma, and well-being strategies.

The goal of this Research Topic is to stimulate novel scientific accounts and perspectives on how sport performers, coaches, managers, sport science and medicine support personnel, and major stakeholders have been impacted and responded to the above challenges.

This Research Topic aims to offer athletes, coaches, support staff from across the sport-sciences and sport medicine field, sporting bodies, sport institutes, and international sporting bodies policymakers an evidence-based account of the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and the learning that has emerged, particularly with regard to effectively managing mental health of sporting populations in the face of future adversities.

Important subject areas of this Research Topic include:

• Individual, team, and interpersonal coping with the COVID-19 pandemic events;

• Risk factors of psychological distress at the athlete, team, interpersonal and organisational level (e.g., activity restriction and reduction of competitive events; individual vs team sports; aesthetic sport, weight bearing sports, etc.);

• Impact of mass media and social media on psychological attitudes and behaviours towards the COVID-19 challenges for athletes and sporting stakeholders;

• Coping as an athletic community during the pandemic (e.g., emotions, psychological burdens, anxiety, traumatic experiences, resilience, PTSD);

• Preventative and health-based psychological interventions for athletes including those without access to psychological support services;

• Clinical emergency protocols to manage mental health problems: evidence-based suggestions and recommendations to governments and policymakers;

• Role of athletes as ambassadors for compliance strategies during COVID-19 pandemic;

• Internet interventions, remote psychological support, mHealth-eHealth based treatments, psychology-oriented digital tools and apps in the COVID-19 emergency;

• Monitoring changes in psychological, behavioural and interpersonal responses to the COVID-19 emergency over time;

• Cross-cultural comparisons in responding to and coping with the COVID-19 emergency at the individual, family, and interpersonal levels.

Original research, data reports, case studies, theoretical perspectives, and commentaries are welcome.

Due to the exceptional nature of the COVID-19 situation, Frontiers is waiving all article publishing charges for COVID-19 related research in this Research Topic.

Answer 2

The coronavirus pandemic has triggered shockwaves across the world, resulting in an explosion in public health which killed thousands & plummeted the global economy into the strongest recession after the Great Depression

Explanation:

• As policymakers around the world take action to deter the transmission of the "COVID-19 pandemic", prohibitions on spectators' mass gatherings  have caused many major sporting competitions to be canceled or adjourned. The arrangements to play tournaments within closed doors were also scrapped over the past week with players & staff falling victim to the infection.
• The disruption of the sports calendar would undoubtedly go well beyond the controls of the pandemic & the short-term lack of content for advertisers and copyright holders, together with possible loss of advertising revenues & subscription income.
• In the meantime, a new phenomenon has arisen in the midst of all this. Athletes, spectators and even others who report the game have been involved. Most sporting stars around the world have turned up their social media skills (on Twitter Facebook, and Instagram), reaching out not only to their fans but also to interviewers.
• The shutdown of COVID-19 prohibited coaches and athletes from taking the courts, pitch, track, trails, & pools, – and any competitive environment. During such time sports personalities have been responsible with  generating hundreds of "public service announcements" to inspire fellow students & the general public to take action during the crisis.
• Now that virtually every professional association has cancelled or delayed its next season indefinitely, sports media will need to be imaginative. This is true with a giant like ESPN — whose programming calendar has unexpectedly a lot of open slots. As such the impact of Covid 19 on sports personalities in terms of impact on their physical and mental health are being covered by media. They are also conducting many interviews In the form of SMS/short messages with sporting personalities in self-isolation/full-scale, in-depth interview – having audience "subject review", "reflect" & "open up".

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