Abstract
For a targeted and effective Olympic education it would be beneficial to know the answers to the following questions: How are Olympic values and the current Olympic Games (OG) associated by sporting and non-sporting youth? Does sport environment, especially in contact team sports influence the attitudes of the participants against violence and unfair behavior? What place and role should Olympism in the concepts of education and the training of professionals in physical education and sport as well as in scientific research at universities? The survey in young people 12 -19 year old (N=2321) document the immediate and strong associations between the OG, athletes, kinds of sports and sport competitions and less ones with the Olympic principles. As the age of respondents increases the frequency of association between the OG and the occurrence of negative phenomena in the Olympic movement.
Mass media are currently the most important source of knowledge and attitudes towards the OG, Olympism, both in their creation as their shaping. The results of the survey focused on the models of FP situations confirmed the hypothesis about the different perception (sensitivity) of respondents to the models of "fair play"(FP) and "unfair" situations.
In players of contact games these tendencies are more pronounced and expressed than in the athletes in other sports. Players in contact sport games are generally more tolerant toward violence and unfair behavior than other athletes.
The research activities in Olympism build the base of education programmes and should be systematically developed in the concepts of Olympic education at universities. They may be applied as a separate educational subject or as a set of selected Olympic themes included in the content of education for social science and sports subjects.