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Sports performance, whether if we like it or not, is also determined by the quality of the sports equipment used [1], the role of science and technology in sports being a particularly important one these days [2, 3], whether it is students or performance athletes [4]. The present study aims to verify the effect of the presence of sports equipment specific to the game of basketball and possibly its relationship with the achievement of sports performance. The research took place on a sample of 12 athletes between the ages of 16 and 35, members of the basketball team of the ACS Ralph Brașov Club that plays in the 2nd valuable league of our country (competition season 2021-2022). As part of a partnership with a major sports equipment manufacturing company, the subjects were offered basketball shoes for testing and eventual purchase at promotional prices. 3 tests were used (98m sprint, 10x5m sprint and 5 consecutive long jumps) with own shoes and special basketball shoes, testing grip, flexibility, stability, ergonomic shape or system depreciation of specific shoes. The results obtained were surprising, the main conclusion being that sports marketing is not always closely related to sports performance.

Performance benefits today, in all sports branches, from a quick evolution, which is determined, according to the unanimous opinion of specialists, by the continuous improvement of methods and means aimed at optimising motor skills and the process of developing their targeting in the smallest details. The essential objectives and tasks of the performance and highperformance biathlon in our country for the next period can only be achieved if the training methodology is properly guided and scientifically substantiated. The aim of the research is to identify ways to reach the exercise capacity specific to biathlon so as to facilitate the achievement of an optimum biological condition needed for efficient range shooting. In the experimental research, we aim at the psychomotor condition manifested by the stability of corroborative coordination abilities obtained through individualised proprioceptive training and the adjustment of heart rate before the activity at the shooting range. As a result of the scientific research, we can say that the working hypothesis has been confirmed. Thus, through individualised proprioceptive training and the guided adjustment of heart rate that leads to the adjustment of exercise intensity, we can optimise the technical ability to shoot at the range in the junior biathlon event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cross-country skiing is a sport whose technique is not very complex. That is why the competition level is mainly due to the development level of motor qualities, especially those that this sport requires, namely strength endurance and maintaining balance. The training program proposed in this paper was selected and rationalised following the pedagogical observation activity on several junior students of the same level. The purpose of this research is to determine the level of development of motor skills as a result of practicing a program of initiation into the practice of cross-country skiing. Starting from the assumption that the levels of physical development (biological particularities) and motor ability (motor skills) have a fairly large distribution line, it is assumed that approaching the development of motor skills through the modern methods and means of cross-country skiing can lead to an increase in motor performance indexes and, implicitly, to increased sports performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, in ski biathlon, a substantial increase in performance has been recorded worldwide, with some evidence that there is a gap between our athletes' results and world results. Performance has seen significant increases from one year to the other. The achievement of these notable performances contributed to the improvement of the quality of materials (skis, sticks, boots, wax and optimal trajectory), but first of all to the continuous refinement of the training methods. The aim of this research is to determine the level of endurance improvement through the participation of a group of athletes (juniors aged 16-18 years) in a different training program (junior training program I), in terms of both land training and snow training. The training program proposed in this paper was selected and streamlined following the pedagogical observation activity on several groups of athletes within the Dinamo Râşnov School Sports Club. The biathlon training pattern should be continuously monitored by coaches to avoid the negative effects of overtraining, such as muscle strength reduction, increased heart rate at rest, abnormally increased blood pressure, muscle pain and fatigue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]