One of the causes of sports career crises is a self-organizing restructuring of the activity motives. The most important motives that control career development are passionate, pragmatic, creative and health motives. A synergetic occurs in moments of crisis. It is a sharp and unpredictable change in the ratio of motives. As a result, there are bifurcations of the activity nature. The main purpose of the current work is to connect two actual problems of modern sport - features of a highly qualified athlete career development and usage of methodology of synergetics for the analysis of the social phenomena in sport. The works of recent years take attention to a number of problems caused by the need of prediction and managing sport career. [1-3]. A number of synergetic approaches to the analysis of sports processes is proposed [4-5]. The problem of sports career crises was formulated in the works carried out at the Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education. The results were summarized in N. B. Stanbulova`s works, in particular in the PhD thesis, defended in 1999 [6,7]. It was noted that a sports career is a multi-year process with a number of stages separated by crises. For the description of sports career N. B. Stanbulova used analogy with the concept of human life, developed by L. S. Vygotsky and E. Erikson, [8]. They showed that the human way of life is a special structure changing in time, which is characterized by the presence of crises. In moments of crisis, there are "inexplicable", sudden actions of people
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