Review article

Leisure Time and Recreational Sports

Heda Festini ; Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

The original meaning of the term ‘sport’, olimpism and elite sports is retrieved (an analytic and continental approach, McNamee, 2008) and in Croatia V. Janković, 1967.
The crisis of sports is due to problems of boundaries, sports are no longer autonomous, and they are not healthy. Crumbling sports ethics is conditioned by the mercilessness of economic markets.
Solutions:
– a call for an alignment of moral norms in all sectors of society;
– the regulation of free economic markets is a condition for the possibility of sports’ becoming recreational, that is, for sports to help gain physical strength and psychic energy, rather than producing a dangerous mass hysteria.

Keywords

olympism; elitism; crisis of morals; chaotic market

Hrčak ID:

46134

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/46134

Publication date:

22.10.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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