In recent years, there has been a growing interest in sports community development, and many local governments are engaged in such projects. It has been reported that social capital built through sports can contribute to wellbeing, but this relationship has not been fully understood yet. On the other hand, in the field of public health, studies on loneliness have been advanced, and its relationships with social capital or life satisfaction have been examined. Thus, the purpose of this study was to clarify the relationship among experience of participation in projects, social capital from sports community development, loneliness, and life satisfaction. Data were collected from residents in Anan City, Tokushima Prefecture, where community development through baseball has been promoted. The results of structural equation modeling indicated that experience of participation in projects was indirectly positively associated with life satisfaction through social capital from sports community development and loneliness.

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　This study compares the speed skating development programs of Japan and other skating outstanding countries, which as Canada, and the Netherlands, and analyzes the similarities and differences. The purpose of this study is to build a development system based on similarities and differences, and the text mining analysis method is utilized. As a result of the analysis, Canada focuses on the development stage and trainability with the support of the Canadian government. Also, Canada aims the development based on the quantity and quality of training and competition. In the Netherlands, skating is popular and is recognized as a lifelong sport. Skating in the Netherlands helps to set up the philosophy, goals, and training of athletes according to the stages of athletes’ body, mind, cognition, and emotion. Japan provides a general sports perspective to enable guidance to the growth and development of athletes and aims to develop athletes at the coaches’ discretion.

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