(School of Physical Education,South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510006,China) Abstract: Based on specifying the legal essence and social relation connotations of sports rights, the authors estab-lished subject qualification, interest freedom and power influence as the criteria for content classification, and put forward the following opinions: “fairness” is a trait of sports culture, also the core value of sports law concepts, or-ganically combines the legal attributes of sports rights with the social attributes of sports rights into a whole; sports rights have multiple forms, and as a legitimate mean for satisfying interest demands, sports rights have purposes and limitations: the power endowed to the subject by the state and society is an important force for maintaining the sub-ject’s sports rights and interests. Furthermore, the authors analyzed and concluded that basic sports rights, common sports rights and remedial sports rights are the main types of sports rights, which are closely related, mutually af-fecting, and all pointing to the sports subject and the realization of sports public interests. Key words: sports law;jurisprudence;sports right |