Czech National Gymnastics Organization

From 1860 to 1940 the role of organized sports in Europe greatly expanded and grew in popularity. The participation in sports flourished, as so did competition, especiall(a)y with the development of the Olympic games. The impacts of these organized sports was a supportive advance in Europe that furthered contentist patriotism with and through with(predicate) unification, encourage pietism, and created a true understanding of the importance of visible health. A hygienic sense of national hook was cultivated through sports, which can be seen in military effects.The Czechs saw the importance of sports as a panache to create the perfect soldier. Miroslav Tyrs, the cofounder of the Czech National Gymnastics Organization stated that the training of athlete produced an unbreachable defense on which the assaults of our foes will be shattered. (Document 1). Sports was seen as symbolic of war and was advertised as a game through British propaganda (Document 6). Soon sports became the training ground, one which was waged against the rest of the humans through the Olympic Game.According to Martin Berner, a Berlin journalist in the 1913 article, The Olympic games are a war a real war, that gives enough insight into world ranking (Document 5). Moreover, Japanese traveler Y. Mihashi stated that after his viewing of a Denmark gymnastic exercise competition in 1930 that the athletes were like statues come to life, with unbelievable live rhythm (Document 9). Mihashi also spoke of the ecstasy of the spectators, cheering for their country, and the sense of national pride instilled in them.However, Sir Robert Baden Powell, founder of the boy scouts, criticized the obsessions of spectators in 1908, stating that the games often became furious and would turn the players into aggressive figures (Document 30). The negative effect sports did have on spectators did non weaken the fact that sports did unify Europe and that the spectators were cheering in unison, neverthe less only in a rather un-orderly way. A stricter sense of morality was introduced throughout the role of organized sports as an outcome of its popularity.Sir Baden-Powell boost the acting of sports since it was the best training for the game of life developing a lumberman physically and morally, for he learns to play with good temper and un egoishness (Document 3). An African delegate of a British colony in 1910 said that in sports lay perfect union and a complete subordination of the self (Document 4). The delegate also precluded that in order for ones country to succeed in life they must be able to attain unification through the use of organized sports.Besides the development of a strong sense of pride in ones country and the stricter enforcements of morals, sports also support the improvements of physical health. In non only men but also in women, which furthered the idea of womens equality through Europe. Soviet Physician Nikolai Semashko in 1928 stated that physical cultur e in the soviet understanding is concerned not with usher breaking but with peoples physical health has personalized and social hygiene as its major objective. (Semashko, Doc. ) The Soviets sports were seen as an integral part of the revolution, improving the well being of all citizens. The role of women also was integrated into the idea of sports and physical involvement, in 1910 women were accredited as part of the Czech gymnastics organization (doc 2), were seen to be needing the homogeneous physical training as a man (Doc 10) thereby further establishing a sense of physical equality in 1930, Ger galore(postnominal), supported by German physician Alice Profe. And the support of female athletes on a rivalrous level can be seen by the appearance of females in gymnastics in the 1880s (Doc 12).Seen to encourage courage and agility in women which was traditionally seen as a solely male attribute. Although sports fostered a nationalist post it was also seen to encourage peaceful national ties. In Peace through sport from the British National Workers Sports Association in 1935, the international games encouraged peace between nations through friendly rivalry between our Continental brothers and ourselves on the sports field it will be much better easier to give tongue to peace and infinitely harder to stir up war against eachother. (Doc 11). The organized sports of the age period between 1860 and 1940 helped create a sense of national pride, encouraged morality and physical well being, a sense of comradery, womens equality, as well as peaceful relations between countries, resulting in many advances culturally and socially throughout Europe. .