Abstract: The wide application and innovation of IT in the field of education has promoted the informatization of higher education and brought about reform of the traditional teaching mode. The flipped classroom, doubtlessly, has become a vogue to lead the reform of educational teaching in China. The article makes an effort to discuss the realistic significance of introducing the flipped classroom into the teaching of track and field sports and points out the problems that might arise in the process of putting it into practice in the hope of renewing the teaching methods and stimulating students' learning interests.