Abstract des Autors

The development of a competitive sports culture is impossible without the appropriate organizational structures. Successful development of organizational sports culture depends on the successful fulfilment of roles by numerous individuals within its structure. An important value of competitive sport is of course competitiveness which is understood, in the broadest sense of the word, as that particular element which should generally lead to the highest possible quality of competitive sports and particularly its humane and ethical meaningfulness. Athletes play or should play the most important role in competitive sports. And there are many athletes in the world. Their basic aim is to fulfil their competition-related desires and goals. As a rule, athletes wish to fulfil their competitive creativeness up to the highest sports performance. On the way to this goal, athletes encounter numerous factors and obstacles. Only few succeed in reaching the top, the level of the champions’ elite sports performance.