Brazil

Ana Cláudia Couto (), Mauricio Couto (), Cláudio Boschi () and Kátia Lemos ()
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Ana Cláudia Couto: UFMG
Mauricio Couto: CEFET MG
Cláudio Boschi: CREF 6-MG
Kátia Lemos: UFMG

Chapter Chapter 22 in Comparative Sport Development, 2013, pp 301-310 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Brazil adopted a sports policy in the early days of the Republic. The Ministry of Sports is responsible for the constitution of the national sports policy. Given the current legislation, Law 9615/1998, there are many aspects to sport, sport education, high-performance sport, and commercial sport participation. High-performance sport is promoted through social inclusion campaigns, and sports policy is implemented by the Secretariats. Sport is financed primarily by the lottery and by the Athlete Scholarship program. Informal physical activities in Brazil today include walking and street running. The Atlas of Sport in Brazil identifies the 10 most popular sports today which are soccer, volleyball, table tennis, swimming, futsal, capoeira, skateboarding, surfing, judo, and athletics. Although still controversial and contradictory, some progress has been made in the area of sport development, but the results are not yet satisfactory.

Keywords: Social Inclusion; Sport Participation; Olympic Game; Table Tennis; Popular Sport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8905-4_22

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