Budoucnost olympismu?

Abstract

The article briefl y reminds the original ideas of Pierre de Coubertin; they helped him to create a certain conception of Olympism (the unity of sport, education and culture) which became the ground of Olympic Movement and organization of Olympic Games in the New Era. Olympism is nowadays extended in the whole world and being accepted as a basic philosophy of modern sport. It contributes signifi cantly to enhance as constituting a full-value component of culture. Th e authors present some symptom of modern often very pragmatic sport and the reasons of the changes in it. Th ey indicate the necessity to formulate - in a new situation - the values, purpose and aims of sport in preserving and enriching the principal Olympic values. Such substantiation appears as not only a theoretical requirement, it is in interest of sport itself. Sport deserves not only a public recognition and support since it is satisfying diff erent social interests, but it cultivates members of democratic societies in the sense humanistic desiderata. Th e system of Olympic values may contribute to those ideas, based on Coubertin visions, enriched by so far obtained experience and interpreted in the contemporary conditions. Olympism in the widest sense of sport practice and as a philosophy of sport may at those conditions fi nd its proper place in the future social development.