Résumé:
The history of sport is long in that it goes back farther than antiquity; It is
evident that these forms have undergone profound changes in the past. The
sport has indeed profoundly evolved because it is no longer only a mode of
leisure or even a form of confrontation between tribes or locality by athletes
interposed. Over the last few decades, it has become an economic issue that
draws colossal interests, both financially, economically and socially.
In the first place, what do we mean by professionalization of sports
organizations? Is this an inescapable process that could only be opposed by
vain resistance? What are the effects of this professionalization on the
structure, culture and identity of sports organizations?
The answers will have to be provided by regulations adopted by the
authorities in charge of the sports sector but also by the various operators
who will have to activate at multiple levels of this dynamic. They will be as
much the organizers as the operators of this new economic world, without
forgetting the trainers, the performance-related health specialists and all the
new functions related to these extreme athletes.
Athletes have an employment contract and receive, among other things, a
salary. In these cases, professionalization will be addressed to trainers,
employers and legal arrangements. It encourages more performance insofar as
the gains are an exponential function of sports success, which brings out the
facts disclosed in the media of the risks of doping.
The taking of licit or illicit products is harmful to the health of the athletes
but also to the ethics of sport and therefore to the public image.
The introduction of sport in the market economy through professionalization,
its impact on the training of sports professionals, ethics, sportsmanship
which is synonymous with friendship, fraternity of frankness and probity,
Honesty should remain the sport's first virtue.
The great sports manifestations have always been an outlet for the
populations, if they are not channeled, extreme violence. It is the result of the
erasure of social relations that is supposed to generate sport at the amateur
stage.
