The aim of this paper was to interpret the new facts about the content of various stages in the long term sports training. These facts had been obtained with a help of the analysis and generalization of empirical information containing in the documents and the data about the training and competitive activities in elite and famous athletes-members of the USSR national team from 1978 to 1992. It had been stated that there is a correlation between the age of an elite athlete and the revealing tendency to stabilization and decrease of sports results' level. Taking into consideration these circumstances the author offers to distinguish not only the reculminating and culminating stage in elite athletes training and competitive activity, but the stabilizing stage and the stage of leaving t he elite sports career, which are to be merged into the completing period of long time sports activities.
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