Modern Sport: Problems and Solutions

Abstract

Modern sport is a powerful industry, including a special system for the production of sports records. It includes, along with athletes and coaches managers, sports doctors, psychologists, researchers. The media are constantly "hyping" large-scale competitions to the level of the main events of society. However, it should not represent modern sport as a single phenomenon with one goal, functions and general patterns of development. Modern sport is many-sided and diverse. The system of sports includes such varieties as mass, children's and youth, school, student sports, which solve the problems of rehabilitation and the formation of sports culture of the younger generation. High performance sports (Olympic and professional sports) are aimed at achieving high sports results and victories. These varieties combine common functions: spectacular, political, economic. The sport of high performance broadcasts a special pattern of lifestyle, the way success, demonstrates high sports technique, the ability to beat opponent. For many viewers, this model becomes a role model for not not only in sports, but also in other spheres of life. However, elite sport has generated a large number of contradictions that do not allow modern sport to develop positively, often discredit it and form a negative attitude of people, especially parents, to sports activities. Increasingly, public opinion evaluates modern sports as a sphere dangerous for humans. Activities. The purpose of the study: to conduct a sociological analysis of the contradictions of modern sports and suggest ways to overcome them.