identifying barriers and solutions for the development of public sports in the post-corona era: a case study of ardabil province

The purpose of this study was to examine the barriers and solutions for the development of public sports in the post-covid era in ardabil province. the main research approach was mixed method. the statistical population of this research in the qualitative part included physical education professors, officials and experts of the general department of sports and youth of ardabil province and the heads of general sports committees of the province and cities. the research tool was a semi-structured interview, which was recorded by ensuring the confidentiality of the interviews and then implemented in the administrative software, and the data was coded using the maxqda20 software. the results of the research showed that 61 items were classified into 10 factors by factor analysis method. in the next step, the opera method was used to determine the solutions. in the second part of the research, using g-power software, a sample size of 386 people was obtained. the sample members were selected by random sampling method and the questionnaire obtained from the codes was distributed among their volumes and finally the data obtained from the questionnaires were entered into spss26 software and after checking the reliability, exploratory factor analysis was performed. the opinion of the experts of the opera meetings was that the proposed solutions should be adjusted according to the respondents’ prioritization in a small part for the development of public sports in the post-coron post-covid a era.