Sportas: tarp fizinės kultūros ir kūno kultūros

Abstract

The article represents sport organizational problems, where the first one is the aspect of Olympic ideals. The birth of balanced individual as the social ideal (in Ancient Greece) and the issue of organization between individual and country as well as individual’s physical education as an integral part of spiritual development are also among discussed questions here. The policy of individual serving the country must be connected to physical education and the country itself may organize sport culture (macro-level) and physical education (micro-level) at the same time. Humanity of countries depends on the balance of these two levels. Where the general physical education takes over, humanity takes over, too. Sport in the XXth century gives high challenges for physical education as it is destroyed by dominating enterprises and commerce. However, countries did not disappear over it – and Olympic Games are the proof. They are interested to preserve the Olympic ideals. The article also analyses the main principles of how Lithuanian sport is being organized. In the paper it is emphasized that Lithuania has established solid structures to detach physical education from sport performance culture. That is to say, the same structures, with schools intervention, support each other.