High performance sport in Brazil: an analysis of the bolsa atleta program from 2009 to 2016

• Autor(a) principal: Athayde, Pedro Fernando Avalone
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Rodrigues, David Viegas
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno de Educação Física e Esporte
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/cadernoedfisica/article/view/24462
• topic: Política de Esporte; Esporte de Alto Rendimento; Programa Bolsa-Atleta.; Sport Policy; High Performance Sport; Bolsa-Atleta Program

BACKGROUND: Since the 1930s, the interface between the State and the Brazilian sports sector, historically, has been characterized by a predominance of high yield performance. In this sense, this article deals with a Brazilian sports policy of high performance recently. OBJECTIVE: More specifically, either the research object is the “Bolsa-Atleta” Program (PBA). The text aims to identify the impacts of the definition of Brazil as host of the 2016 Olympics in Brazilian public policies to support high performance, based on the analysis of the PBA abbreviation and funding in the years 2009 to 2016. METHODS: This is a Research predominantly qualitative and exploratory. For data collection, it was performed using a document analysis technique in primary and secondary sources. RESULTS: The results confirm the concentration of PBA distribution in the Southeast and South regions, demonstrating an oscillating behavior in the financing of the Program, as support for a relationship between changes in national sports policy influenced by the RIO 2016 Olympic Games, considering the concentration two benefits. In the Olympic sports and athletes, athletes with greater chances of medals in the competition. CONCLUSION: More generally, the analysis of PBA financing and management confirms the change in national sports policy, with mega sporting events as the organizing principle of the country’s sports and leisure agenda. More specifically, it is observed that the PBA reproduces oscillating behavior of public funding for sport in Brazil, as well as reproducing the concentration of the benefit in specific locations and in the more developed athletes, which highlights the need for a greater contribution to sports training for the sport. emergence of new sportsmen.