Perception of the Sports Social Environment After the Development and Implementation of an Identification Tool for Contagious Risk Situations in Sports During the COVID-19 Pandemic

José Ramón Lete-Lasa; Rafael Martín-Acero; Javier Rico-Díaz; Joaquín Gómez-Varela; Dan Río-Rodríguez

doi:10.3389/fspor.2020.610421

Perception of the Sports Social Environment After the Development and Implementation of an Identification Tool for Contagious Risk Situations in Sports During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Front Sports Act Living. 2020 Nov 26:2:610421. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2020.610421. eCollection 2020.

Authors

José Ramón Lete-Lasa¹, Rafael Martín-Acero², Javier Rico-Díaz^{1

3}, Joaquín Gómez-Varela², Dan Río-Rodríguez^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Secretaría Xeral para o Deporte, Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
² Grupo de Aprendizaje y Control del Movimiento Humano, Facultade de Ciencias do Deporte e a Educación Física, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain.
³ Facultade de Ciencias da Educación, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
⁴ ATP Entrenamiento Personal, A Coruña, Spain.

Abstract

The present work details the methodological process for creating a tool for the identification of COVID-19 potential contagion situations in sport and physical education before, during, and after practice and competition. It is a tool that implies an educational and methodological process with all the agents of the sports system. This tool identifies the large number of interactions occurring through sports action and everything that surrounds it in training, competition, and its organization. The aim is to prepare contingency protocols based on an exhaustive analysis, risk detection, and proposal of contingency measures trying to reduce the residual risk to a minimum. In a second part, the results of the implementation of this tool in the sports system of Galicia (Spain) are shown revealing the change in perception about the coronavirus transmission in sport of the technicians and the problem for returning to sport for athletes under 18 years.

Keywords: COVID-19 virus disease; health risk assessments; infectious disease transmission; pandemics; risk perception; sport; teaching learning process.