China’s Strategy for the Panoramic Preparation for Major Sports Events——The Case of the Preparation of China’s Weightlifting for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
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Abstract
The preparation for major sports events, as a necessary step to improve athletes' competitive ability and obtain excellent performance, is affected by multiple internal and external factors with the complexity. This paper takes China's weightlifting preparation for the Tokyo Olympic Games as a case study, and explores the elements and internal logic of the panoramic preparation for major sports events by the explanatory case study method. It is found that the panoramicpreparation for major sports events is dominated by the competition demand and aimed at improving the athletes' competitive ability and competition. And its core elements consist of construction of preparing supporting bodies, making preparing core tactics, establishing preparing operational mechanism and creating a favorable preparing environment, which aim at for maximum benefits of management, training and competing. At the same time, it reveals that the internal logic of the elements of the panoramic preparation for major sports events is guided by politics target, resource, and driven bymanagement, training, science and technology, and guaranteed by profession, fair,environment, which work together in the whole process of the preparation of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
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