The Sport in the Year 2000

Abstract

The article treats with the sport in the year 2000. In a first part it describes tendencies, which characterizes the development of the sport within the last decades; it describes the forms of sport practice as well as the structures of the organizations of sport. After that it discusses the structural (demografical, structure of the population, life-stile...) changes, which have obviously influenced these developments. In a last part will be discussed the short and long run consequences of the described tendencies. But the article also has in mind the problems of a forecast due to the uncertainty we must have concerning the development of some parameters to the year 2000 (political system, development of the use of leisure time, competition of the port with other cultural offers...).