Alors qu’ils ne sont seulement que 45% à pratiquer 2 heures de sport par semaine, 90% des français consomment 1 à 2 heures d’images à contenu sportif par jour. Le sportif de haut niveau reste la figure qui unifie ces deux rapports au sport dans nos sociétés contemporaines par sa présence ou ses avatars. Notre hypothèse est que, dans ce contexte, la peau du sportif de haut niveau en dit long sur nos environnements naturels, culturels et corporels. Elle serait même annonciatrice d’autres manières d’habiter son corps et d’habiter le monde, bref d’une écologie corporelle dont il convient de dresser les contours. Le système tégumentaire des athlètes est le plus souvent appréhendé selon des principes de résilience. Le sportif de haut niveau semble avoir une peau exceptionnelle, résistante aux chocs, aux coups, aux agressions des milieux naturels et sociaux. Elle est également la griffe retenue du paraître arborant de multiples corps étrangers à vertus ornementatives (piercing, tatouages, implants…). Elle est l’objet de toutes les attentions : quête d’éternelle jeunesse, de sensations inédites, d’impressions fortes, signe de triche ou de souffrance, révélatrice d’une appartenance identitaire.Mais c’est oublier aussi qu’il s’agit d’un écosystème en soi. Les théories du paraître et du frisson prennent en compte cette idée selon laquelle la peau du sportif de haut niveau serait biologiquement et culturellement singulière, énonciatrice d’un nouveau style de vie ou d’une mutation. Nous proposons d’analyser ce phénomène en croisant plusieurs corpus :- Enquête bibliométrique sur la peau des sportifs de haut niveau- Biographies écrites et documentaires de sportifs de haut niveau- 76 questionnaires-entretiens avec des sportifs de haut niveau- 200 spots publicitaires- Sondages et enquêtes de notoriété / French people are 45% to practice 2 hours of sport by week, until they are 90% to consume sport’s images. The high level athlete unified those two ways of sports being. Our hypothesis is that athlete’s skin tells a lot about our environments and embodiments. Skin symbolize ways of dwelling the world, a body ecology witch this thesis try to understand. Athlete skin is a resilience process that confers to them their exceptional properties. Skin athletes is also an embodiment support for the sport marketing and the transmedia who appropriates skins biological and psychological functions.It’s also a forgotten ecosystem revealing by postmodern paradigm founded on shiver and aesthetics theories. To analyze those mutation we have worked on several data:- Bibliometric enquiry on high level athlete skins- Biography and documentary on sports champions- 76 record from high level athletes- 200 publicities- Global data on celebrities of sport

Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Die doel van hierdie ondersoek was om te bepaal watler faktore die grootste bydrae tot sportprestasie lewer. Met die literatuurstudie is die verskillende faktore wat sportprestasie beinvloed, geidentifiseer en verder ondersoek en beskryf. Daar is gevind dat 'n wye verskeidenheid faktore bestaan wat atletelsportdeelnemers se prestasie positief of negatief kan beinvloed. 'n Empiriese ondersoek is uitgevoer waarby 'n aantal atlete/sportdeelnemers, wat aan verskeie sportsoorte deelneem, betrek is. Die afrigters van hierdie atlete/sportdeelnemers is oak by die ondersoek betrek. Eerstens is bepaal watter faktore, volgens die atlete/sportdeelnemers, die grootste bydrae tot hul sportprestasie lewer. Daama is hierdie geidenlifiseerde faktore aan 'n regressieanalise onderwerp om te bepaal walter faktor/e die grootste en belangrikste bydrae tot sportprestasie lewer. Die resultate het getoon dat hierdie faktore soos volg is: motivering, afrigter, kommunikasie, selfvertroue, aanleg en dieet / The purpose of this study was to determine which factors contribute significantly to sports achievement. In the literature study, different factors with an underlying effect on sports achievement were identified, explained and further investigated. A wide variety of factors bearing positive as well as negative effect on athletes'/sport participants' achievement were found. An empirical study was carried out in which a number of athletes/sport participators were involved. The coaches of these athletes/sport participants were also included. The factors that play a major contributing role in these athletes/sport participants' sports achievement were primarily determined. Thereafter the identified factors were further investigated through the use of a regression analysis to ascertain which ones contribute the most to sports achievement. The results indicated that these factors are as follows: motivation, coach, communication, self-confidence, talent and diet. / Educational Studies / M.Ed. (met spesialisering in Voorligting)

Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Die doel van hierdie ondersoek was om te bepaal watler faktore die grootste bydrae tot sportprestasie lewer. Met die literatuurstudie is die verskillende faktore wat sportprestasie beinvloed, geidentifiseer en verder ondersoek en beskryf. Daar is gevind dat 'n wye verskeidenheid faktore bestaan wat atletelsportdeelnemers se prestasie positief of negatief kan beinvloed. 'n Empiriese ondersoek is uitgevoer waarby 'n aantal atlete/sportdeelnemers, wat aan verskeie sportsoorte deelneem, betrek is. Die afrigters van hierdie atlete/sportdeelnemers is oak by die ondersoek betrek. Eerstens is bepaal watter faktore, volgens die atlete/sportdeelnemers, die grootste bydrae tot hul sportprestasie lewer. Daama is hierdie geidenlifiseerde faktore aan 'n regressieanalise onderwerp om te bepaal walter faktor/e die grootste en belangrikste bydrae tot sportprestasie lewer. Die resultate het getoon dat hierdie faktore soos volg is: motivering, afrigter, kommunikasie, selfvertroue, aanleg en dieet / The purpose of this study was to determine which factors contribute significantly to sports achievement. In the literature study, different factors with an underlying effect on sports achievement were identified, explained and further investigated. A wide variety of factors bearing positive as well as negative effect on athletes'/sport participants' achievement were found. An empirical study was carried out in which a number of athletes/sport participators were involved. The coaches of these athletes/sport participants were also included. The factors that play a major contributing role in these athletes/sport participants' sports achievement were primarily determined. Thereafter the identified factors were further investigated through the use of a regression analysis to ascertain which ones contribute the most to sports achievement. The results indicated that these factors are as follows: motivation, coach, communication, self-confidence, talent and diet. / Educational Studies / M.Ed. (met spesialisering in Voorligting)