INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

- Women
Olympic sportswomen are more competitive, whereas recreational
sportswomen express more of a concern for competitors and they give
a higher importance to playing well than to the result or classification
itself. On the other hand, Olympic sportswomen are characterized by a
correct but not very sympathetic relationship towards competitors, and
more often playing for a result or classification rather than for a good
game. They approve of provocations in competitions more and have
more knowledge about doping. Recreational sportswomen are
convinced that doping should be more heavily sanctioned.
CONCLUSION
A rough summary of the results shows that Slovene athletes try
hard to achieve the best results and at the same time the majority of
them respect fair play, which is mostly expressed in their contacts
with other competitors and rules. Greater differences are seen between
individual and team sports where athletes of the latter show a lower
level of fair play (especially regarding correctness). On the other hand,
differences between the two sexes are practically non-existing,
especially in top-level sport, whereas in recreational sport they are
greater and more important.
We all have contacts with sport in one way or another and we all
try to handle it through our own perspective. And athletes are not
really much different about that. Their perspective is different from
ours, although this is expected according to different role of sport in
our lives. Their existence depends on sport or it depends on us,
because we support sport or athletes and through that, we enable
changes and development of sport, the development of
commercialisation, and the passage from amateur to professional
status. In addition, here it all begins or all ends. Besides their own
wishes and desires, which athletes carry inside them - similar to each
individual, who wants to improve and develop his/her own abilities or
capacities - they also carry our expectations and pressures. For this
reason, we are as a society responsible for the development of sport.
Consequently, can we still say that responsibility is individual or is it
in fact collective?
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