Resumen de Change in methods of athlete development in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial sport?
When the career length of periodic victors in Classical times is compared with that of victors in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial times, there is a strong tendency that later athletes had, generally speaking, much shorter careers. Also, most of these later athletes completed the periodos in the space of only three years and did not repeat their participation. Although our sources are not always complete, it looks as if this may have become a way to enter the professional circuits Furthermore, sources and early success at the periodos suggest that there was a change in training attitudes and methods from training athletes intensively after puberty (late specialization model) to training them as young as possible (early specialization model).
