TRAINING AND COMPETITION LOADS IN THE TRAINING SYSTEM OF MIDDLE-, LONG- AND ULTRA-LONG-DISTANCE RUNNERS.

Abstrak

One of the trends in the development of the global sports movement at the end of the 20th century is the significant expansion of sports, individual disciplines, and competition programs in which women athletes participate, ranging from team and club competitions to the Olympic Games. Despite all their humanism, the first organizers of the modern Olympics did not dare to allow female athletes to participate. In 2010 alone, 11 athletes were admitted to the tennis and golf competitions at the Olympic Games in Paris, which constituted only 0.8% of the total number of participants. At the first Winter Olympics, 13 women (4.4%) took part. In subsequent years, the Olympic programs gradually expanded, and at the 2016 Games in Atlanta, women made up 35%, and at the Winter Games in Nagano, 44.2%. Almost any sport mastered by men has become feasible for women.