Scientific Aspects of Sports Selection and Orientation

The relationship between the concepts of «sports selection» and «sports orientation» is determined. The limiting factors of an effective system of sports selection are determined. Peculiarities of the implementation of sports selection tasks at separate stages of an athlete’s training are presented: the basic stage, the stage of children selection according to motor abilities, the stage of gifted athletes selection; stage of talented athletes selection; stage of sports elite selection. The principles of sports selection are characterized: systematicity, scientific foundation, complexity, prolonged dynamic selection, pedagogical value, adaptability of selection criteria, humanism, relevance, profitability, dynamic prediction (monitoring). It is established that the selection system involves the development and experimental testing of the effectiveness of selection models within the framework of organizational measures; at the same time, modeling has a certain effectiveness only when the experimental model reproduces the main characteristics of the planned system of athletes training, corresponds to its purpose, tasks, methods, takes into account the peculiarities of the multi-year training stages.