Risk Assessment and Crisis Intervention of Mega Sporting-events under the COVID-19 Pandemic Yicai Yu
Shanghai University Of Sport, 399 Changhai Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China
Abstract
The pneumonia pandemic caused by Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the entire international community and human life. Mega sporting-events in the past two years, such as the Olympic Games, Asian Games, Euro Cup, have all been affected by the pandemic. The 19th Asian Games originally planned to be held in China in 2022 was postponed to 2023 due to the pandemic, and the 3rd Asian Youth Games was even canceled. Although most countries in the world have eased epidemic control, the world still cannot return to the pre-pandemic state. At present, the corona-virus is still evolving, and countries are still facing the pressure of pandemic prevention and control. It is foreseeable that in the future, the world will be characterized by normalization of pandemic prevention and control, and the long-term coexistence of humans and viruses. Therefore, how to deal with the risk of the pandemic and how to intervene in the public health crisis has become a management task that must be faced by the organizing committees of mega sporting-events in the future.
As important concepts in management, risk assessment and crisis intervention have been applied into many interdisciplinary studies. This paper intends to apply these two concepts to the management of mega sporting-events, analyze the cases of mega sporting-events such as the Tokyo Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup and the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, which have been difficult to hold under the shadow of the pandemic in the past two years, and probe into the documents published by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2020 on the risk management of sports events and the suggestions on pandemic prevention measures. In order to add new ideas to the thinking of risk management and crisis response of mega sporting-events, this paper innovatively put forward the risk prediction model and crisis intervention mechanism.
