Early Learning (E)

Chapter 12 explains the last component of the WISE formula: Early learning (E). I explain two dimensions of early learning: the flexibility to quickly react to changes in the Olympic program, and the willingness to imitate the most successful elite sport regimes around the world, with a steady commitment to reforms. I argue that there is a trend toward homogeneity of elite sport policies that does not only apply to Western developed countries, and that while there is little variation among the leading Olympic countries the challenge is to develop slightly improved versions of best practice cases that served as a model.