What values of the olympic sports and youth perception has Portugal

Abstract

The implementation of sports programs for young people are based on the assumption that sport is an important educational factor in the education of young people. Participation in physical activity is an important factor in the socialization of children and young appearance, allowing you to ethical behavior development.
In recent years we have seen that the behavior of young people in sport has been degraded, ie, more attitudes of aggression, deception, disrespect referees, opponents and even teammates back image professional sports. Currently, what is paramount is to win, no matter how this goal is achieved, participation in sport is increasingly valued. A quote from P. Coubertin began to be misplaced, "the important thing in sports is not to win but to compete." So it becomes important to change the values that govern the sport, "where are we going if we do not respect the basic rules of the game that people want nobody respects good sports" (Capa 2005). Therefore, sports programs are based on the general idea that sport is a vehicle for the promotion of education among youth. The Olympic Games as the epitome of that participation in sport can serve as a source of mobilization of young people in achieving the goals recommended by the Olympics. Olympic education, with all its ideals and values associated with it can contribute greatly to the formation of these youth sports. The Olympic Games as the world's biggest sporting event, where is the thread for the promotion of the values and the defense of Olympism sport as a way to promote peace, harmony, friendship, solidarity among all peoples.