| （Department of Physical Education，Hebei Polytechnic University，Tangshan 063009，China) Abstract: From such a theoretical perspective as the time sequence of a fair competition incident occurring to a com-petitive sport, including such 3 time frames as start point fairness, process fairness and result fairness, coupled with supplemental expatiation on issues such as opportunity equality, the author reviewed and analyzed fair competition re-lated cases occurring during the London Olympic Games, and put forward the following opinions: the issue of start point fairness in competitive sports cannot be eliminated, competition differences caused by the inequality of competi-tion start points can be diminished only by means of economic and technical assistance; the issue of process fairness is affected by factors such as competition value selection, rule establishment, athlete behavior, referee behavior, weather change, venue environment etc; start point fairness and process fairness cannot produce a fair result, yet the evaluation of international organizations and the power of speech of international media can influence and change result fairness; opportunity fairness is the precondition of fair competition, but the realization of opportunity fairness cannot always turn out a fair competition result; in general, fair competition is an ideal, so all the efforts made by human beings can only make competition infinitely close to the ideal condition of fair competition, make games look more reasonable, and balance the interest relationships between various parties as much as possible in order to reduce controversies.
Key words: sports ethics；competitive sports；fair competition；London Olympic Games |
