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Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics. 2025. Vol. 22. No. 3. P. 381–383.

Polikanova I.

Sports psychology is considered to be one of the most dynamically growing psychology branches. This is due to both technological innovations, such as virtual reality, eye-tracking, artificial intelligence (AI), and increased competition of athletes, which results in higher workload, younger age of career onset, and search for alternative training approaches. Elite athletes often compete at their physical and physiological limits. It is therefore a proper psychological training that may be critical to an athlete’s performance. Sports psychology is most strongly characterized by the complexity of applied approaches. Thus, ideomotor training, coping strategies and self-regulation methods remain relevant and sought-after by athletes. On the other hand, the rapid evolution of innovation and AI allows for even greater improvements in athletes’ training. Given this diversity of innovative sport solutions, not only the increasingly advanced technologies used for athlete diagnosis and training are essential, but also a systematic and evidence-based methodology based on research and scientific data.

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