Volume : IX, Issue : I, January - 2019

ROLE OF SPORTS IN MODERN SOCIETY: ACHIEVING TRUE SPORT

Dr. Dhruv Bhalla

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A healthy nation is always a wealthy nation. Therefore, it is necessary to put emphasis on sports. One can think of a healthy mind only in a healthy body. Sport is the medium through which an individual and nation can get name and fame. Sport plays an important role in our lives and our society. There is various health benefits for those who are involve in active sports and maintain active daily lifestyles. Beyond the physical benefits, sport ings emotional, psychological, and social benefits, as the athlete learns and experiences self–discipline, the joys of achievement, and the lessons of losing. Sport can even achieve social change through the common language of play by inging people together even in places and times of conflict. In present scenario every sportsman wants to win at any cost. The tendency of winning at any cost affects the feelings of true sport. True sport is the sport which is fair legal, ethical, judgmental and unbiased. The temptation of winning, fame, and notoriety stretches its grasp from the world of professional sports to school play ground. The indicators of a society that aims to win at all costs are plentiful; early specialization, overtraining, overzealous parents, intolerant coaches and athletes who use performance–enhancing drugs or otherwise eak the rules. As a nation, we must renew the true spirit of athletic competition—that is, sport that upholds the principles of fair play, sportsmanship, integrity, and ethics

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ROLE OF SPORTS IN MODERN SOCIETY: ACHIEVING TRUE SPORT, Dr. Dhruv Bhalla INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-1 | January-2019

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