Self-contained definitions for the categories, value drivers, and concepts used across NxtStride. Each entry is written to make sense on its own if extracted by an answer engine.
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Practitioner sport
Practitioner sport is a sport whose events are consumed primarily by the athletes who compete in them, not by an external audience. Its valu…
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Participant sport
Participant sport is a sport whose value driver is headcount — the number of people actively taking part — rather than audience size or gove…
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Spectator sport
Spectator sport is a sport whose value driver is audience attention. Revenue comes predominantly from media rights and sponsorship, priced a…
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Governance credibility
Governance credibility is the value driver behind practitioner sport: trust in the integrity of competition, the transparency of selection, …
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Legitimacy chain
The legitimacy chain is the sequence of institutional recognition that gives a practitioner-sport title its authority: the IOC, continental …
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Frugal mode
Frugal mode describes the financial reality of most practitioner-sport federations: near-zero revenue from sponsorship, broadcast rights, or…
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Prestige mode
Prestige mode describes a practitioner-sport federation with low participation volume but high per-athlete margin, typically funded by a fin…
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Recognition status
Recognition status is NxtStride's operational proxy for governance credibility: a federation's or discipline's standing within the IOC-recog…