SPORT AND THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE 21 st CENTURY

Definition: Different activities, carried out in different fields and with many different goals.
1. Common features among the different sport activities
  1. Cooperation
  2. Game (Fun)
  3. Competition
  4. Institutionalization ,
  5. Rules
2. Reasons:
  1. The desire of adventure, the need of having fun, the physical appearance or the human interaction.
  2. Sport is within everybody's reach, the economic or cultural level is not a problem to practise sport
Understanding sport as....
1. Mass spectacle: involves much money
2. Social reality: A lot of people practises sport
In Spain
1. Past - Much spectators then practisers
2. Now - High percentage of people practises sport (16mill people)
  1. Between 15 and 65 years: 45% of people
  2. 31% of women and 49% of men
  3. In school as a subject
    1. More qualified teachers, facilities and materials.
    2. Students are constantly in contact with P.E.
Advantages
1. Physical and mental health.
2. Popular or entertainment sport.
3. Professional sport as spectacle spor
4. Sport at a high competitive level.
5. Education sport.
Institutions
1. Regulate the greatest competitions in our society
  1. International
    1. IOC (International Olympic Committee)
    2. INTERNATIONAL FEDERATIONS
    3. ASSOCIATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTSMEN
  2. National
    1. SPORTS COUNCIL
    2. NATIONAL FEDERATIONS
    3. PROFESSIONAL LEAGUES
  3. Autonomous
    1. THE REGIONAL EDUCATION MINISTRY
    2. TERRITORIAL FEDERATIONS
  4. provincial
    1. COUNCILS (SPORTS SECTIONS)
    2. TERRITORIAL OFFICES
  5. local
    1. SPORTS BOARDS
    2. SPORTS CLUBS
    3. POPULAR SPORT

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