Dr.Sc.Pol., Associate Professor N.Yu. Markushina¹
Dr.Sc.Pol., Associate Professor О.L. Tserpitskaya¹
PhD, Associate Professor Yu.S. Kuzmin¹
PhD N.G. Zaslavskaya^1
1St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg

The article considers the present situation with the values-based reference points for modern sports to respond to the latest negative trends in the global sport system degraded by the commercialization, business agendas and dirty politicking that now dictate the rules to bar Russian athletes from top-ranking sport events. Having analyzed the idea of ‘sport spirit’, the authors make an attempt to find its present meaning for the global Olympic movement and if it can be ranked among the base values of the Paralympic sports. To arrive to an objective interpretation of the ‘sport spirit’ in application to the physically disadvantaged people, the study analyzed the relevant modern study reports with concern to the values basics of the modern sports plus the valid regulatory documents of the relevant international sport organizations including International Paralympic Committee, United Nations Organization, European Council, European Union, and the European Paralympic Committee. Objective of the study was to analyze the situation with the national paralympians being barred from the top-ranking events – in the context of the global and European policies and practices to see the situation from the western standpoint including the relevant doping and social rehabilitation issues.

Keywords: values-based reference points, sport spirit, Olympic movement, Paralympic movement.

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