| （School of Physical Education，Chongqing Normal University，Chongqing 401331，China) Abstract: The author discussed with the authors of The cancellation the National Games: a perspective based on sports public service about its major views and process of argumentation, reexamined the National Games from the perspective of sports public service, and put forward the following opinions: according to the public service theory and the basic connotations of sports public service, the National Games itself belongs to the scope of sports public service, therefore, logically there is an inherent contradiction in the view “to cancel the National Games based on the perspective of sports public service”; moreover, the authors’ narrow understanding of the connotations of “sports public service” resulted in their neglect of important roles played by the National Games in servicing Olympic strategies, realizing striving to win honors for China, absorbing social sports resources, boosting sports reform deepening, promoting sports public service such as sports public infrastructure construction etc; in the process of argumentation, the authors’ understanding of the National Games was incorrect to a certain extent, and their analysis of its existing problems was not thorough. Accordingly, the author sorted out and analyzed existing major problems with the National Games, and put forward the proposal to reform but not to cancel the National Games.
Key words: sports sociology；National Games；sport public service；sports reform |
