Participation in sports is a key ingredient towards success which enables us to boost essential skills, develop new strategies and bring pure execution. When kids watch a game on television, they tend to fantasize that if they were in their shoes the outcome would be different. Unfortunately, there’s no gain without pain. There is no skill or power attained easily without participation and practice although some kids adore the idea of being spoon-fed and handed success. Skills are enhanced through
Physical recreation and sports are activities that help to develop life skills, abilities, talents and improve the general health of the body. Individuals may earn many benefits from sports: relieves stress, keep individuals in good health, and more opportunities to make new friends. Physical recreation and sports is the most important part of modern life. In a survey conducted in 2012 concerned with participation in physical recreation and sports in Australia, the Australian Bureau of Statistics
The participation in sport practice has increased along with the increase in the number of professional athletes. Sport injury is an important public health problem and a potential outcome of participation (Watters, Brooks, Elton & Little, 1984; Williams, Wright, Currie & Beattie, 1998). This participation in sports puts a high demand on sportsmen. For example: being physically fit (Arnason, Sigurdsson, Gudmundsson, Holme, Engebtetsen & Bahr, 2004), performing complex movements (Dust, Atkinson, &
there are two different games (summer and winter) with more than 50 sports, 80 countries, and 10,000 athletes total. However, these games did not start out this way. The ancient Olympics started in around 776 BCE in Olympia, Greece. They were devoted to Ancient Olympian gods, and served as a religious festival to honor Zeus. These games occurred every four years, and it brought people from all around Greece together. The sports that were played were running, long jump, shot put, javelin, boxing
students’ favourite sports. Most of the students prefer ball sports which has over 15 students put it in the first place. Although the popularity of racket sports is slightly lower than ball sports, it seems to be the most favourite sports among these 4 kinds of sports. There are above 40 students in total ranking racket sports as top 3 favourite sports and it is the least dislikable sports. In terms of popularity, however, water sports are at the bottom between other sports. The number of students
trophy for everything they did, regardless of how well or what is was that they did. Well sadly, this is becoming the case in kids sports programs. Gone are the days where only the best people were recognized for doing well. Nowadays, every kid on every team is praised just for showing up, not for exhibiting any talent. Trophies should not be given out for participation because, losing is good for you, kids need to get used to losing, and nonstop recognition is not healthy. To begin with, losing is
better performance levels at their sport. When an athletes participates in their sport for the pure enjoyment of it, they are doing so because the athlete is intrinsically motivated. An athletes motivations for engaging in the behaviour arise entirely from internal satisfaction rather than out of a desire to gain some type of external rewards such as money or performing well to look good for a large crowd spectating. When an athlete is participating in their sport it can generate such feelings of
highly debatable for a long time and it still is. Even the “father” of the Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin was against women’s participation in the Games. Nevertheless, nowadays almost half of the athletes are represented by women and we do have a lot of examples of incredible female Olympic victors in various sports. But what was the attitude towards women in sports on the origin of the modern Games – in Ancient Greece? The main aim of this essay is to explore the extent of women’s presence at
Transgender Issue in Sports Introduction There has arisen the highly discussed and controversial issue of sports participants being transgender. A transgender person is one whose internal mental identification as being of a particular gender does not match up to the sex attached to the individual at birth. This factor has been a highly considered factor among sport leagues who have to ensure equality and fairness in sports. As such, there exists the argument on the issue
soccer, basketball, track and fields and swimming among popular sports like Lydia de Vega, Paeng Nepomuceno, Akiko Thompson, Elma Muros, Eric Buhain, Efren ‘Bata’ Reyes, and the pride of Philippine sports, pound for pound boxing champion Congressman Manny Pacquiao, among others. Among the government agencies in charge of the sports development program of our country is the Department of Education which is mandated to organize sports development programs in the grassroots level that are geared towards