Social Values of Competitive Sport

Abstract

The supreme aim of competitive sport has always been victory or sport success, over personality and health being subordinated to this aim both axiologically azç instrumentally. This specific bias of competitive sport has found its most articulate expression in the theories of training and pedagogics of sport which are aimedvat least in their praxeological approachvat maximizing sport results and performance alongside with personality and health development geared up adequately to the requirements of sport success. This fact does not, however, exclude a possibility of some positive effect of competitive sport upon one’s personality and health in the course of training. Unlike in recreational, mass scale and entertainment sport, health and personality development as conditioned by competitive sport can hardly be considered as a matter of fact socio cultural values per se.