(1.School of Physical Education,Liaoning Normal University,Dalian 116029,China;2.Department of Physical Education,Dalian Jiaotong University,Dalian 116028,China) Abstract: The authors identified the risks of competition participated by the athletes by using the listing method, evaluated the risks of competition participated by the athletes by utilizing the AHP-FUZZY (layer analysis method – fuzzy comprehensive) model, and revealed the following findings: the sources of the risks of competition partici-pated by high performance Chinese athletes in potentially advantageous events are diversified, some of them are even uncontrollable factors, mainly including the self factor, opponent factor, social factor and other factors; the weight of risk factors varies with different events. The SWOT matrix analysis results for different events show that corresponding training methods and means can be used to reduce the effect of disadvantageous factors, and over-come threats that come from geographical and environmental factors, referee factor, incidents as well as from the experience, physical stamina and tactics of their opponents, so as to avoid or handle corresponding risks. Key words: potentially advantageous sports;risks of competition participation;risk identification;risk evaluation;risk handling |