As the scale of sports events in our country continues to expand, the risks and potential hazards have also increased sharply. Establishing a sports event circuit breaker mechanism as a core system to ensure the safety of participants is necessary. However, this mechanism faces practical challenges such as ambiguous execution standards, frequent public opinion crises, and insufficient institutional coordination during its implementation. It urgently requires systematic optimization. This paper takes the safety supervision process of marathon and cycling events as the research object, analyzes the contradictions and challenges in the implementation, aiming to provide theoretical support and practical references for improving the risk governance system of sports events and enhancing the standardization of the circuit breaker mechanism.

Gao Jie. Execution Dilemmas and Optimization Strategies for Circuit Breaker in Sports Events. Frontiers in Sport Research (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 2: 48-53. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSR.2026.080208.

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