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Sport became such a prominent part of their culture that the Greeks created the Olympic Games , which in ancient times were held every four years in a small village in the Peloponnesus called Olympia. Sports have been increasingly organised and regulated from the time of the ancient Olympics up to the present century.

Industrialisation has brought motorised transportation and increased leisure time , letting people attend and follow spectator sports and participate in athletic activities.

These trends continued with the advent of mass media and global communication. Professionalism became prevalent, further adding to the increase in sport's popularity, as sports fans followed the exploits of professional athletes — all while enjoying the exercise and competition associated with amateur participation in sports.

Since the turn of the 21st century, there has been increasing debate about whether transgender sports people should be able to participate in sport events that conform with their post-transition gender identity.

Sportsmanship is an attitude that strives for fair play, courtesy toward teammates and opponents, ethical behaviour and integrity, and grace in victory or defeat. Sportsmanship expresses an aspiration or ethos that the activity will be enjoyed for its own sake.

The well-known sentiment by sports journalist Grantland Rice , that it is "not that you won or lost but how you played the game", and the modern Olympic creed expressed by its founder Pierre de Coubertin : "The most important thing is not winning but taking part" are typical expressions of this sentiment.

Key principles of sport include that the result should not be predetermined, and that both sides should have equal opportunity to win. Rules are in place to ensure fair play, but participants can break these rules in order to gain advantage. Participants may cheat in order to unfairly increase their chance of winning, or in order to achieve other advantages such as financial gains.

The widespread existence of gambling on the results of sports events creates a motivation for match fixing , where a participant or participants deliberately work to ensure a given outcome rather than simply playing to win.

The competitive nature of sport encourages some participants to attempt to enhance their performance through the use of medicines, or through other means such as increasing the volume of blood in their bodies through artificial means.

All sports recognised by the IOC or SportAccord are required to implement a testing programme, looking for a list of banned drugs, with suspensions or bans being placed on participants who test positive for banned substances.

Violence in sports involves crossing the line between fair competition and intentional aggressive violence. Athletes, coaches, fans, and parents sometimes unleash violent behaviour on people or property, in misguided shows of loyalty, dominance, anger, or celebration.

Rioting or hooliganism by fans in particular is a problem at some national and international sporting contests. Female participation in sports continues to rise alongside the opportunity for involvement and the value of sports for child development and physical fitness.

Despite increases in female participation during the last three decades, a gap persists in the enrolment figures between male and female players in sports-related teams. Certain sports are mixed-gender , allowing or even requiring men and women to play on the same team.

One example of this is Baseball5 , which is the first mixed-gender sport to have been admitted into an Olympic event. Youth sport presents children with opportunities for fun, socialisation, forming peer relationships, physical fitness , and athletic scholarships.

Activists for education and the war on drugs encourage youth sport as a means to increase educational participation and to fight the illegal drug trade. According to the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital , the biggest risk for youth sport is death or serious injury including concussion.

These risks come from running, basketball, association football, volleyball, gridiron, gymnastics, and ice hockey. Disabled sports also adaptive sports or parasports , are sports played by people with a disability , including physical and intellectual disabilities.

As many of these are based on existing sports modified to meet the needs of people with a disability, they are sometimes referred to as adapted sports. However, not all disabled sports are adapted; several sports that have been specifically created for people with a disability have no equivalent in able-bodied sports.

The competition element of sport, along with the aesthetic appeal of some sports, result in the popularity of people attending to watch sport being played.

This has led to the specific phenomenon of spectator sport. Both amateur and professional sports attract spectators, both in person at the sport venue, and through broadcast media including radio , television and internet broadcast. Both attendance in person and viewing remotely can incur a sometimes substantial charge, such as an entrance ticket, or pay-per-view television broadcast.

Sports league and tournament are two common arrangements to organise sport teams or individual athletes into competing against each other continuously or periodically. It is common for popular sports to attract large broadcast audiences, leading to rival broadcasters bidding large amounts of money for the rights to show certain events.

The football World Cup attracts a global television audience of hundreds of millions; the final alone attracted an estimated worldwide audience of well over million and the Cricket World Cup Final attracted an estimated audience of million in India alone.

In the United States, the championship game of the NFL , the Super Bowl , has become one of the most watched television broadcasts of the year. Sport can be undertaken on an amateur, professional or semi-professional basis, depending on whether participants are incentivised for participation usually through payment of a wage or salary.

Amateur participation in sport at lower levels is often called "grassroots sport". The popularity of spectator sport as a recreation for non-participants has led to sport becoming a major business in its own right, and this has incentivised a high paying professional sport culture, where high performing participants are rewarded with pay far in excess of average wages, which can run into millions of dollars.

Some sports, or individual competitions within a sport, retain a policy of allowing only amateur sport. The Olympic Games started with a principle of amateur competition with those who practised a sport professionally considered to have an unfair advantage over those who practised it merely as a hobby.

Technology plays an important part in modern sport. It is a necessary part of some sports such as motorsport , and it is used in others to improve performance. Some sports also use it to allow off-field decision making.

Sports science is a widespread academic discipline, and can be applied to areas including athlete performance, such as the use of video analysis to fine-tune technique, or to equipment, such as improved running shoes or competitive swimwear. Sports engineering emerged as a discipline in with an increasing focus not just on materials design but also the use of technology in sport, from analytics and big data to wearable technology.

For example, in , full-body, non-textile swimsuits were banned by FINA , as they were enhancing swimmers' performances. The increase in technology has also allowed many decisions in sports matches to be taken, or reviewed, off-field, with another official using instant replays to make decisions.

In some sports, players can now challenge decisions made by officials. In Association football , goal-line technology makes decisions on whether a ball has crossed the goal line or not. The final decision rests with the referee.

Research suggests that sports have the capacity to connect youth to positive adult role models and provide positive development opportunities, as well as promote the learning and application of life skills. There is no high-quality evidence that shows the effectiveness of interventions to increase sports participation of the community in sports such as mass media campaigns, educational sessions, and policy changes.

Benito Mussolini used the FIFA World Cup , which was held in Italy, to showcase Fascist Italy. When apartheid was the official policy in South Africa, many sports people, particularly in rugby union , adopted the conscientious approach that they should not appear in competitive sports there.

Some feel this was an effective contribution to the eventual demolition of the policy of apartheid, others feel that it may have prolonged and reinforced its worst effects.

In the history of Ireland, Gaelic sports were connected with cultural nationalism. Until recently the GAA continued to ban the playing of football and rugby union at Gaelic venues. This ban, also known as Rule 42, [69] is still enforced, but was modified to allow football and rugby to be played in Croke Park while Lansdowne Road was redeveloped into Aviva Stadium.

Until recently, under Rule 21, the GAA also banned members of the British security forces and members of the RUC from playing Gaelic games, but the advent of the Good Friday Agreement in led to the eventual removal of the ban. Nationalism is often evident in the pursuit of sport, or in its reporting: people compete in national teams, or commentators and audiences can adopt a partisan view.

On occasion, such tensions can lead to violent confrontation among players or spectators within and beyond the sporting venue, as in the Football War.

These trends are seen by many as contrary to the fundamental ethos of sport being carried on for its own sake and for the enjoyment of its participants. Sport and politics collided in the Olympics in Munich.

Masked men entered the hotel of the Israeli Olympic team and killed many of their men. This was known as the Munich massacre. A study of US elections has shown that the result of sports events can affect the results. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that when the home team wins the game before the election, the incumbent candidates can increase their share of the vote by 1.

A loss had the opposite effect, and the effect is greater for higher-profile teams or unexpected wins and losses. Étienne de La Boétie , in his essay Discourse on Voluntary Servitude describes athletic spectacles as means for tyrants to control their subjects by distracting them.

Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor any fish sooner fixed on the hook by wormy bait, than are all these poor fools neatly tricked into servitude by the slightest feather passed, so to speak, before their mouths. Truly it is a marvellous thing that they let themselves be caught so quickly at the slightest tickling of their fancy.

Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny.

By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naïvely, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books.

During the British rule of Bengal , British and European sports began to supplant traditional Bengali sports , resulting in a loss of native culture.

Sport was an important form of worship in Ancient Greek religion. The ancient Olympic Games were held in honour of the head deity, Zeus , and featured various forms of religious dedication to him and other gods. The practice of athletic competitions has been criticised by some Christian thinkers as a form of idolatry , in which "human beings extol themselves, adore themselves, sacrifice themselves and reward themselves.

Tertullian condemns the athletic performances of his day, insisting "the entire apparatus of the shows is based upon idolatry. God has enjoined us to deal calmly, gently, quietly, and peacefully with the Holy Spirit, because these things are alone in keeping with the goodness of His nature, with His tenderness and sensitiveness.

Well, how shall this be made to accord with the shows? For the show always leads to spiritual agitation, since where there is pleasure, there is keenness of feeling giving pleasure its zest; and where there is keenness of feeling, there is rivalry giving in turn its zest to that.

Then, too, where you have rivalry, you have rage, bitterness, wrath and grief, with all bad things which flow from them — the whole entirely out of keeping with the religion of Christ. Christian clerics in the Wesleyan-Holiness movement oppose the viewing of or participation in professional sports, believing that professional sports leagues profane the Sabbath as in the modern era, certain associations hold games on the Lord's Day.

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sport, idræt, sportsgren…. sport, idrott, idrottsgren…. sukan, bersifat baik, bersuka-suka…. der Sport, die Sportart, feiner Kerl…. sport [masculine], idrettsgren [masculine], idrett….

کھیل, کھیل کود, کام سے لطف لینا…. спорт, полювання, рибна ловля…. спорт, занятие спортом, щеголять…. ক্রীড়া, একটি খেলা, প্রতিযোগিতা…. sport, pašák, legrace…. olahraga, orang baik, kesenangan…. กีฬา, การพักผ่อนหย่อนใจ, ผู้ที่มีน้ำใจนักกีฬา….

thể thao, môn thể thao, người có tinh thần độ lượng…. sport, paradować w lub z, dyscyplina sportowa…. 스포츠, 운동…. sport, tipo in gamba , gioco….

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