Entre Meio e Fim: Um Caminho para o Direito ao Esporte

Sport is a right on the international scene and, in the Brazilian case, constitutional, a result of historical processes of construction and dispute of narratives. Yet, there are great challenges to overcome for its realization. Among them, are the ambiguities and tensions between different discursive practices that present sport as a human activity that is the realization of development or as a tool for development. In this essay, we refute the instrumental rhetoric of sport - sport-as-mean - which, in our view, marginalizes and impoverishes the sporting experience and, consequently, weakens it as a social right. Instead, we argue in favor of the right to sport as sport-as-an-end in which ensuring it presupposes making people capable of practicing it with freedom and self-determination as a fundamental human experience for a life worth living.