(Department of Physical Education,Jinan University,Guangzhou 510632,China) Abstract: The National Games is a comprehensive sports gathering at the highest level in China, a major stage for various regions to show their sports strengths, but always accompanied by a lot of strange phenomena, such as sig-nificant “host effect”, competitive performances in the National Games exceeding performances in the Olympic Games in the same period, and such. The author put forward suggestions for the development of the National Games in terms of event setup, competition mode, performance evaluation, etc. Key words: sport sociology;National Games;“host effect”;“gold medal or nothing theory” |