A inserção da alta competição nos programas dos governos constitucionais em Portugal e o seu enquadramento normativo

Abstract

The Insertion of Top-Level Competition in the Constitutional Governments’ Programs of Portugal and its Legal Framework Top-level competition, meaning the sportive practice within the scope of sport-performance, which corresponds to the appearance of talents and skills of exceptional merit whose results are assessed by international standards, lacks specific orientation and organisation. In this study, we aim at investigating the space occupied by this sportive subsystem in the 14 constitutional governments’ programs and studying the legislator’s intervention in terms of regulating this sector of life. Therefore, we analysed those governments’ programs and gathered all the legal diplomas related with top-level competition. The results obtained lead us to consider that all but the V, VI, and VII constitutional governments’ programs have explicit or implicit references to top-level competition, with a special emphasis after the VIII Government. The study also showed that specific laws have been published since 1976 focused on top-level competition, reinforced by a set of specific measures created to support athletes, coaches, officials and referees and by the obligation of fulfilling specific organisational tasks to sport federations and bodies of central administration.