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Research & Investigations in Sports Medicine

Sport and Healthy Competition

  • Open or CloseMark Brooke*

    Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    *Corresponding author: Mark Brooke, Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Submission: November 13, 2019;Published: November 20, 2019

DOI: 10.31031/RISM.2019.05.0006

ISSN: 2577-1914
Volume5 Issue4

Abstract

Does sport provide positive health? The narrative has been debated for several decades. For example. moral values such as cooperative spirit as well as mental toughness are said to be learned qualities from sport participation [1]. However, it seems that other learning points might be aggression, violence and a win-at-all cost mentality [2]. This latter viewed clearly in the phenomenon of doping and deviant behaviour such as diving in football. So, is sport both a positive and negative stimulant? To what extent is health affected through sport participation?

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