Elite athletes'' training process management efficiency analysis
Objective of the work was to analyze the elite athletes’ training process management efficiency. The official score sheets of the Olympic Games and World Championships were subject to the analysis. The study showed that the elite athletes including the Olympic and World Champions and medal winners scored their personal best results in the top-ranking competitions of the season only in 50% of the cases for the last 15 years. The elite athletes’ training process management efficiency was found far enough from its possible maximum - irrespective of the athletes’ nations of origin. This means that the opinion on the modern coaches being highly skilful and knowledgeable in the elite athletes’ training technologies and perfect in the athletes’ fitness control and management in the training process are not grounded enough in fact. Only a few very seldom cases may be found of some top-ranking athletes being prudently managed in their training process so that they repeatedly came to the main track and field events of a few seasons on peaks of their sport form (e.g. Usain Bolt). Therefore, prudent process management is possible albeit for a vast majority of athletes and coaches it still poses an insurmountable theoretical and practical problem, and this problem may be one of the main reasons for many athletes making resort to doping.