ABSTRACT
Keywords: biomechanics, cc-skiing, Freiburg, Germany, olympic-training-centre, performance diagnostics, ski jumping.
1 Preliminary Remarks
The Freiburg-(Black-Forest) Olympic-Training-Centre (OTC) was established at the end of 1988 as one of 20 centres in Germany (see Fig. 1 and 2). At that time, six elite sport discipline associations belonged, comprising alpine skiing, nordic skiing, cycling sports, wrestling, track and field, gymnastics and disability sport. It had neither its own centre nor its own spaces for primary staff. Supporting integrated discipline associations is guaranteed through several cooperative agreements with facilities at the University of Freiburg, among others. The particular tasks for the accompanying sport-scientific measures derive from actual requirements of the represented associations. Although “only” six elite discipline associations are supported by the FreiburgOTC, the number of individual disciplines within a particular type of sport, for example for track and field, an any case is much higher. A high degree of discipline-specific competence is an integral part of daily operation in biomechanical performance diagnostics, which can scarcely be matched by an individual person across all sport disciplines.
