“…-A comparative analysis of the legal regulation of sports relations in not only the Russian Federation, but also the EU (Pijetlovic, 2017;Schulenkorf, 2017;Weatherill, 2014;Peachey, Schulenkorf, Hil, 2019;Siekmann & Soek, 2012;Van Kleef, 2014;De Dycker, 2019 ;Di Marco, 2019;Alekseev, 2018;Gosteva, 2018;Korchagin, 2015;Bratanovsky, Vulakh, 2015;Saraev, 2019;Iglin, 2014); -The evaluation of the linkage between the legal regulation of sports relations and the competitiveness of athletes in the EU and the Russian Federation (Voevodina, 2018;Beanland, 2014;Callaway, 2014;Koryagina, Nopin, Blinov & Blinov, 2015;Ohtonen, Ruotsalainen, Mikkonen, Heikkinen, Hakkarainen, Leppävuori & Linnamo, 2015); -The analysis of both domestic and foreign approaches to determine the factors characterizing the individual achievements of athletes (Malcata & Hopkins, 2014;Matveev, 2019;Kim, Do Kim & Lee, 2019;Yagodin, 2016;Gill, 1986;De Bosscher, De Knop, van Bottenburg , Shibli & Bingham, 2009); -The substantiation of the assessment of athletes' (sports organizations) competitiveness (Hollander, Wolfe & Chicken, 2014;Corder & Foreman, 2014;Egoshin, Ivanov, Savvina, Kalmakhanov, Zhamaliyeva & Grjibovski, 2018;Grjibovski, Ivanov, Gorbatova, 2016;Shavandina, Vasilev, Philippova & Kiryushina, 2019); -The substantiation of the necessity of legal regulation of the athletes' (clubs, sports organizations)…”