Competitiveness in Sports

Highly competitive sports like baseball, soccer, football, basketball and ice hockey have a tendency to be violent – not only inside the court or field but on the sidelines as well, among the spectators.

This is a rather tricky issue to address…

What is competitiveness?

Competitiveness is “not the sense of having to win the game at all costs, but in having to win each move or action they make.”

This means the drive to continually improve one’s ability and achieve peak performance. Going out to the field or the court and giving it your best efforts, knowing you can still make the best today, better on the next game.

However, this is not exactly what is happening today, isn’t it?

Too much emphasis is placed on winning – winning at all costs!

It doesn’t matter if winning the game sacrifices your own body, your team mate’s, or the opponent’s, as long as you win…

Instead of concentrating on enjoying sports and the pleasure of playing, earning the physical benefits, and encouraging a lasting interest in athletics, competitiveness in sports focuses more on winning.

To most athletes today, competitiveness has become synonymous to winning.

But is this really the correlation between the two?

That’s certainly food for thought…

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