Abstract
The author analyzes the term quality of life as a manifestation of man's self-re alization within the framework of contemporary civilizational development and reaches the conclusion that sport turns into an indispensable, universal element of self-realization. He thinks that this is connected with the revaluation of the body as a universal asset, permitting the fuller, richer and more all-round experience of the world.
The author maintains that people's aspirations towards achieving self-realiza tion will make sport change its content and its functions. It will have to adjust not only to new technology but also to the cultural emancipation that is taking place, to the changing inter-human relations, to the new dimensions of our civilization. This causes changes in the quality of sport itself, marked on the one hand by a tendency towards more and more far-reaching rationalization and intellectualization and on the other hand towards an increase in ludic elements in sport, in conditions, where the growth of leisure time will exert its influence on the increase of leisure pursuits and the culture of play as an essential factor in the shaping of the quality of like.
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