Der Hochleistungssport – Ein Phänomen des Showbusiness / The Top-Athletism

Regarding to several aspects of the Olympic Games in Munich the discussion at first points to the image of sports as actions, which exist on the one hand exterritorially and which work on the other hand for peace in groups of like-minded persons. This image is contrasted to the character of top-athletism determined by the only view to performance. This character can be proofed by facts belonging to athletes, spectators or athletic events, which are organized by high investments. The top-athletism can be interpreted not only as a way of exceptional selffulfilling but also as a phenomenon of alienation, which regards psychic facts not as undiscussed values, but only in their function to vary achievement. It seems to be exact to differentiate physical training for everybody on the one side and top-athletism on the other side and to interprete top-athletism as a phenomenon of showbusiness. There are facts which proof the similarity of top-athletism and other kinds of showbusiness: the relation of few athletes and numerous spectators, high material and immaterial gratifications, the existence of prominent persons and stars, the uncertainty of the careers after a long period of learning and training and the undifferentiated intellectual activities of the athletes as well as of the spectators

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  Günther Lüschen•Sport Im Blickpunkt der…•1972

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