However, sports today is not unsporting as in the baseballer, Alex Rodriguez's case, the fact that he admitted to taking drugs shows that he feels responsible and guilty for taking drugs in order to gain an unfair advantage. This shows his sporting nature as it proves, deep down, he knows that it was wrong for him to take drugs. Therefore, Sports today is still sporting.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Jieyao 12 The reality of sports today is that it is unsporting.
Sports may be sen as increasingly unsporting when athletes , driven by the desire to win , resort to dishonorable means. Dishonourable means come in various forms such as taking drugs, or cheating during the game to gain an unfair advantage. The presence of such acts are detrimental to sports as a whole as it goes against the core value of sports, which is to have sportsmanship. Such acts are becoming more and more common in today's society, whereas in the past such cases are rare and athletes possess the desire to compete fairly and achieve recognition for their abilities fairly. An example of unsporting behaviour in today's world was when alex rodriguez, a baseballer, admitted to taking drugs to enhance his performances. Also, an F1 driver was instructed to crash in order for his teammate to achieve a better position and place the team in a better position to win the team's championship. Therefore, the reality of sports today is unsporting as the presence of dishonourable behaviour is increasingly common.
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referring to your F1 example, u did not further explained if the driver crashed into other drivers and thus hindered their race or if the driver crashed himself into the sides. If his crashed does not affect other drivers, then it would not count as cheating as it could be seen as a strategical move by the team
ReplyDeleteIt's unsporting in a way that by instructing the F1 driver to crash, the team manager is putting the driver's life at risk in order to gain an advantage. Unsporting behaviour is shown as the team manager is not only hindering the driver's desire to strive for a better individual achievement, to better his performances, which is a key value of sporting nature; he is also placing the driver at risk of getting injured, thus this shows that sports today is unsporting.
ReplyDeleteErm i think that the above comment should be placed under a new point. I think.
ReplyDeleteJust to add on, the story is actually that of the Renault F1 team in 2008 at the Singapore Grand Prix. Nelson Piquet Junior was supposedly told to deliberately crash in order to bring out the safety car so that the cars will stack up, henceforth giving teammate Fernando Alonso a better chance at catching up positions after his lousy qualifying the day before due to gearbox failure. The team manager, Flavio Briatore, and technical director, Pat Symonds, have since been sacked. So perhaps you could talk about the sacking as a form of control of these unsporting behaviour and whether it is effective. However, the line you wrote "place the team in a better position to win the team's championship" is not true because at that point in time, it was already mathematically impossible for Renault to win the championship. It was just Ferrari and Mclaren dominating that season and fighting for the championship.
ReplyDeleteawesome insight Eunice!
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