The evolution of athletic potential in the province of Mendoza from 1973 to 2001

Abstract

Descriptive exploratory study with non experimental longitudinal retrospective design that analyzes the changes in the athletic potential of Mendoza’s population from 1973 to 2001. The results obtained by the application of the "t" student statistic test are significantly lower for the average athletic potential between 2000 and 2001, compared with the decade of the 80s (t-test 80/00 = 0.0423). It was not the same when compared to the decades of 1970 and 1990, which showed similar values to each other in their athletic performance ("t" 70/00 = 0.3995 and t = 0.2013 90/00). The conclusion was that the significant difference in provincial athletic performance was obtained when comparing the decade of the 80s with the years 2000 and 2001. Thus, the Hi was rejected and the alternative H was accepted.
The variables that influenced the evolution of this potential were measured, concluding that its decline is related to the state of the tracks in use, insufficient athletic items, lack of specialist teachers, a deficit in the administration of physical and human resources by those responsible for the athletics federation and a lack of projects to channel the number of young people competing at school level that fail to enter the federate circuit.