MECHANISM OF SPORTS ROTATION IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES PROGRAM ON THE BASIS OF ASSESSMENT OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT

The aim - to develop mechanism for rotation of sports included in the Olympic Games program. Research organization. We have carried out analysis of the materials on the development of sports included in the program of Olympic Games and World Championships over the past 20 years. Results. The research resulted in elaboration of development rating for these sports and determination of leading and lagging types of activity for each sport. The leader of the first block of indicators turned out to be the cycling track – 85.61 points. It has been functioning for 125 years, 120 World Championships and 54 World Junior Championships have been held, and the International Cycling Union brings together 187 national federations. The second block of indicators is headed by athletics – 99.56 points. 980 countries and over 10 thousand athletes took part in athletics competitions of previous five Olympic Games, 235 sets of prizes were awarded. The third block of indicators is headed by athletics as well – 86.91 points. Previous 7 World Championships were attended by 1370 countries, 13 thousand athletes and 328 sets of awards. Football has obtained, by far, the leadership in the fourth block of indicators - 92.76 points: the number of subscribers and views on YouTube – 2.1 million and 567 million, respectively. The number of Twitter followers is 1 million 170 thousand with 70 thousand tweets and 3.5 million «Likes» in Facebook. The results of analysis of all blocks made it possible to determine the rating of sports included in the Olympic Games program. Conclusion. The rating revealed 10 most developed kinds of sport having scored over 205 points. The top leaders are athletics – 314,56 points, football – 305,18 points, swimming – 254,78 points.

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