Adaptive sports: features of its origin and problems of development

Abstract

The groups of conditions for the origin and the development of adaptive sports are defined in the work. The first group is associated with the accumulation of knowledge about the positive impact of sport on the human body. The second group is due to the processes of democratic transformations in modern society. The third group is determined by the growing popularity of humanist values in the world. The specific features of the development of the Paralympic and the Deaflympic sports in Ukraine causing the positive dynamics of the performances of national athletes in the international arena are determined. The problems of adaptive sports are characterized. The main issues are: 1) organizational, structural and functional problems; 2) problems of the level of honesty of society; 3) moral and ethical problems.