Abstract:Athletics is called competitive sports, it is a very important parts of sports. As a place of training sports talents in our country, colleges and universities is very important to competitive sports. At the same time, the development of college sports have relation to the implemented of Olympic gold medal strategy for China sports. In this paper, the writer has studied the history of college sports by the method of documents and materials, discussed the success and the problem of college sports and put forward the corresponding development of countermeasure.