Athletics Information And Its Management Used By Elites

Based on the literature, athletics information and its management were examined by means ofquestionnaires, oral and written interviews as well as qualitative study, classification, contentanalysis and ground theory in order to evaluate Chinese experiences. The excellent competitive results of 126 Chinese elite athletes, involved in gymnastics, softball,canoe, taekwondo and shooting, were used as the object of this study to probe the classificationsystem of athletics information and methods for athletics information management. 1. The conception of athletics information was put forward and defined in a broad sense as"the characteristics of the competition environment or the description or reflection of thecharacteristic", or in a narrow sense as "the characteristics of the component parts of thecompetition related to performances or the description or reflection of the characteristic". 2.The classification system of athletics information was established. Athletics information isdivided into six types of information: elites themselves, opponent athletes, competitive resultassessment, performances and circumstances, and competitive conditions and others. Those sorts ofathletics information can be classified further. 3.Athletics information greatly influences the athletes' results in competitions. Managingathletics information effectively is able to improve the relation between competitive systems and theenvironment of the athletics information. More beneficial information can be obtained and harmfulinformation can be avoided so as to create better conditions to achieve better results. 4.There are four basic approaches to athletics information management: information-selection,goal-adjustment, thinking-transformation and direction-behavior. Each approach includes severalspecific forms of management. Athletics information management can also be divided into severalbasic types: obtaining versus avoiding, creating and seeking versus transforming,shunning versus eliminating, utilizing versus coping, cognition versus behavior,cognitive change versus goal change. 5.In data provided by the objects of this study, there are three sorts of athletics information,which the elite athletes frequently encounter: competitive state of the elites themselves, condition ofthe natural substances and conditions of the human being. And there are nine kinds of specificmethods generally used for athletics information management: measure for adopting actions,weakened elimination and the retreat elimination, focusing on a new specific goal, facing risk,focusing on a new vague targets, adjustment to the difficulties of targets, generalized thinking andprojecting thinking, resistant thinking as well as approval and acceptance. Among them, themeasure for adopting actions of common is used in dealing with various athletics information. Thegeneralized thinking and the projecting thinking are mostly used to deal with the information on thegrounds and equipments and the climatic condition. The focusing on a new specific goal and on anew vague target is mostly used in dealing with competitive results. But the resistant behavior, theweakened elimination and the retreat thinking are mostly used in dealing with the physiologicalinformation of the athletes themselves. 6.In this study the elites' experiences in their actual competitions were evaluated andsummarized for athletes' and coaches' reference, in order to improve their performance.