Competitive sport
Competitive sport form of sport prevalent in competition with the goal of delivering the highest possible personal performance. Competitive sport in a narrower sense is high-performance sport (or » top-level sport, when performance is understood as absolute performance). This form of sport requires a very high level of technical and personal efforts in order to get as close as possible to the pre-set norms (e.G. Record, championship) or to set new norms. To achieve this, the following points are necessary: planned performance promotion as it is undertaken within the framework of talent promotion in high-performance centers, specialization, and systematic training (» high-performance training) for participation in competitive sport. In a broader sense competitive sport (performance sport, when performance is understood as relative performance) represents all sport activity, since sport and performance are inseparable. The important point in this interpretation is that the athlete determines the demand level of his competitive (performance) sport for himself. Similar to performance and the » performance principle (and depending thereupon), competitive sport (in a narrower sense) has been controversially discussed in sport and social sciences (critical theory). In order to confront effectively the indisputable dangers associated with competitive sport (physical damages caused by early intensive specialized training, devaluation of sport to a stabilizing factor of societal and/or economic systems, etc.), Competitive sport represents a thematic focus of sport science as a whole and of individual scientific institutes. (H.Haag &g. Haag, dictionary, 2003, 123 p.)
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