The importance and necessity of cultural quality education for athletes has become an international consensus on the cultivation of competitive talents. As a grass-roots sports school that cultivates a reserve army of sports talents, the importance of cultural quality education is needless to say, and it needs extensive attention and attention. The cultural quality education for athletes can not only make them develop in an all-round way, but also ensure the sustainable development of sports competition. This paper takes sports school college athletes as the research object, finds relevant literature to understand the current situation of cultural education, and uses the method of questionnaire to investigate the sports school student athletes, coaches and athletes' parents, and analyzes the influencing factors of cultural quality education. According to the barrel theory, it is unfeasible to improve the cultural quality of athletes only from the perspective of athletes or school cultural education courses. Only multi-faceted joint training can supplement the shortcomings of athletes' cultural quality. A training path for jointly cultivating the cultural quality of athletes from family, athletes and other aspects.

Yihong Zhang. Exploring the Path to Improve the Cultural Quality of Athletes Based on the Barrel Theory. Frontiers in Sport Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 2: 52-58. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSR.2022.040210.

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