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coaching, officiating or supporting competitors alone does not establish athlete status.","Athlete status does not require payment or professional employment; competitive preparation must be distinguishable from employment status.","Current inactivity does not by itself erase athlete history; active, paused and retired participation must be distinguished.","The record concerns an individual competitor, including a member of a team, rather than the team as a collective entrant."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"athlete-role-and-sporting-context","name":"Athlete role and sporting context","description":"Establishes why the person is recognised as an athlete and which sporting contexts that recognition covers.","layers":[{"id":"competitive-preparation-basis","name":"Competitive preparation basis","description":"Records the evidence connecting the person's training to sporting competition.","findings":[{"id":"basis-for-athlete-recognition","name":"Basis for athlete 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sports?","Which sport-specific measures and contextual requirements are sufficient for defensible performance and training comparisons?","How should jurisdiction-specific representation, safeguarding and sensitive-data permissions be linked without duplicating person, legal or clinical models?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-athlete/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 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