"O sport, you are pleasure!"

The historian and sociologist Yuri Topper continues to excursion into the history of modern Olympism. The beginning is here , here , here , here and here .

"You are a faithful, unchanged companion of life. You generously give our spirit and body the joy of being. You are immortal. You are hello today, after the collapse of the Olympiads lost over the centuries. You are a triumphant messenger of the spring of mankind. Spring, when a rapture from the harmony of reason and strength has arisen. You, as a baton, convey this legacy of the ancestors. You have been passing through. Life is triumphantly. You live, not subject of time, sport! "

This is the beginning, singing "Oda to sports" Pierre de Cuberten. Sports - pleasure ... What is pleasure? We look at D.N. Susakov's dictionary. "The highest form of pleasure, sensual, sincere, mental." More synonyms - "bliss", "rapture", "delight".

Okay, we agree: a lover of Play, games in joy, fun of the sport brings pleasure. Quite diverse. Maurice deobra joke: "Sports - entertainment until the seventh sweat."

Does the athlete receive a “gamer” enjoying the regulated game? He won, achieved his own joy. And if the defeat? Singlety, annoyance, wave your hand and forget. What is pleasure?

We look through the book of Johan Hyusing "Man -playing."

"What is it to win? To win means to rise as a result of the game. And there is something more won than the game on its own. The following honor, honor and prestige follow from the victory. And this honor and this honor are always useful directly to the whole group identifying itself with the winner."

Finally, combat Perform is a dramatic rivalry of professional maestro. The pleasure here is very expensive. Let us recall the champions of the skids, who fainly falling behind the finish line. Weightlifters groaning in the rise of a record bar. Let us recall the pain from the unfair decision of the judges. Finally - victory! Do not rush to enjoy, ahead of doping control.

The pleasure of the viewer , a passionate fan - special, from the skill of the idol, from the cohesion of the favorite team. Everything here: bliss, rapture and even mental pleasure: "I foresaw, predicted."

"You generously give our spirit and body the joy of being."

Say - philosophy?

Johann Huyzing about the existence of the game: "Struggle, intense effort, exercise, and hence patience, suffering, endurance, failure - all these concepts are intertwined here together."

And also a special gift of high sports. Dear in his drama, we understand: there is life, more real than our ordinary.

"You are a faithful, unchanging companion of life."

Childhood is the first, most important acquaintance with the game. First, mastering the world of toys, then funny competitions and racing races on the playground, ventures in kindergarten, ball games in the yard. Acquaintance with chess, games in cards. School - the pleasure and grief of school sports, friendship and rivalry of classmates. Sports school, the first championships.

In the near future, we are waiting for the appearance of a disgusting clan of professional athletes who will pervert the idea of sports, monopolize them and turn them into a kind, the theater of puppets

If all this was rare - it’s bad. Then life will require effort and courage. We will have to work hard to make the sport a companion of student and adulthood. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "The mind is in a wretched body."

Exit - game physical education alone or (better) in the company with the same "victims". Years will pass, yoga, qigong will become satellites - the radiation of success in the competition with himself. An advanced age will come, and you will find out that in translation from Latin the word "diet" means "walk".

"Sports are immortal. You hello today, after the collapse of the Olympiads lost over the centuries."

The philosopher Boris Ilizarov introduced a special concept of historical space. ("On the historical gestalt, historical space and creatures of history. " Almanac "index. Dossier for censorship" 14/2001 ).

"At any moment, I can move to any era, to any city, to communicate with any person who has lived on earth. And this will not be meditation, not fantastic or artistic vision, but with each historical instant the more accurate and increasingly essential image of the former. Not because it was" it ", but because this" was "from generation to generation to generation is all the more rapidly. Growing out of the past and has repeatedly expands the present . "

"Sports are immortal. You hello today, after the collapse of the Olympiads lost over the centuries."

Pierre de Cuberten is a "practical" historian acting in a historical space.

"Thinking for new games at the international level, I not only elected the most practical means that ensure their existence, but at the same time served the principles of Hellenism at the same time. I did not stop this service for a moment, and I tried to present Hellenism as a phenomenon of the future in all ways, and not as a relic from the past, worthy of respect. Where the fate of the future is forced, there is a struggle between the principles of the Roman state and there is a struggle between the Roman state and there is a struggle and Greek city ".

"Centuries pass. Life triumph. You live, not subject to time, sport!"

D. GOLSUORSI : "Sports in our world is a sport-the flag of optimism and respect of the enemy is still on it, regardless of which side is victory."

Everything is very convincing and pathetic. Let me, but what is the current absurdity of Olympism?

Let us return to the text of the Olympic memoirs. "Where the fate of the future is boiled, there is a struggle between the principles of the Roman state and the Greek city." This Kuberten reminded of the absurd transformation of Greek Olympism into a bloody show of professionals - the gladiators of the Roman Coliseum.

Later, the author of the Oda warned: “In the near future, the appearance of a disgusting clan of professional athletes awaits us who will pervert the idea of sports, monopolize them and turn them into a kind of puppet theater.”

"About sport - you are pleasure!" - The first statement of Pierre de Cubertin. Not easy, but accurate. Assessing the content of the "ode", we will still be convinced of the wisdom of its beginning.