With the pronounced ongoing growth of global youth sports, opportunities for and participation of youth athletes on the world sports stage, including the Olympic Games, are expected to escalate. Yet, adolescence is a vulnerable period of development and inherently dynamic, with non-linear and asynchronous progression of physical, physiological, psychological and social attributes. These non-concurrent changes within and between individuals are accompanied by irregular and unpredictable threats and impediments. Likewise, the evident age-based criteria and conventional path for those youth athletes deemed eligible candidates for the Olympic Games are not well or consistently defined. Furthermore, the unstructured and largely varying policies and practices across the sporting International Federations specific to youth participation underscore the need to establish a contemporary universal paradigm that would enable elite youth athletes to navigate an individualised healthy pathway to personal, athletic and sport success. First, we reviewed and summarised key challenges facing elite youth athletes and the relevant evidence fundamental to facilitating and supporting central aspects of health and well-being, while empowering safe, sustainable and positive engagement during athletic and personal advancement and competition. Second, we developed and present a modern elite youth athlete model that emphasises a child-centred, practical framework with corresponding guidelines and recommendations to protect health and well-being while safely and favourably managing international sport competition. Our proposed evidence-informed paradigm will enable and support individualised pathways for healthy, well-rounded and sustainable positive engagement while achieving sport success for youth contending or aiming to compete at world-class international sporting events.

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国际奥委会关于参加奥运会的优秀青年运动员的共识声明：健康、安全和可持续范式的要素


随着全球青少年体育的持续发展，青少年运动员在包括奥运会在内的世界体育舞台上的机会和参与度预计将不断增加。然而，青春期是一个脆弱的发展时期，本质上是动态的，身体、生理、心理和社会属性的发展是非线性和异步的。个体内部和个体之间的这些非同步变化伴随着不规则和不可预测的威胁和障碍。同样，对于那些被视为有资格参加奥运会的青年运动员来说，明显的基于年龄的标准和传统路径也没有得到很好或一致的定义。此外，国际体育联合会针对青年参与的非结构化且差异很大的政策和做法强调了建立当代普遍范式的必要性，使精英青年运动员能够走上个人、运动和体育成功的个性化健康之路。首先，我们回顾并总结了精英青年运动员面临的主要挑战以及促进和支持健康和福祉的核心方面至关重要的相关证据，同时在运动和个人进步和比赛中赋予安全、可持续和积极的参与。其次，我们开发并提出了一种现代精英青年运动员模型，强调以儿童为中心的实用框架，并提供相应的指导方针和建议，以保护健康和福祉，同时安全、有利地管理国际体育比赛。 我们提出的循证范式将启用和支持健康、全面和可持续的积极参与的个性化途径，同时帮助青少年在世界一流的国际体育赛事中竞争或旨在竞争，取得体育成功。