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The Sport Spirit
The 2008 Olympic Game will be hold a few day.The press pay a lot of attention in it.To be frankly, I’m tired of listening it.I’m always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield.
So I don’t think so.Ecery coutry pay more attention to Gold Price than to the friendship between countries.
Nearly all the sports practiced nowdays are competitive.You play to win ,and the game has little meaning unless you are dying to win.On the glass of our school ,where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved,it is impossible to simply for the fun and exterises,but as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose,the most savage combative instincts are roused.Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this.At the intenational level.Sport is frankly mimic warfare.But attitude of the spectators,and behind the spectators, of nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contest, and serious believe—any level of sports tests of national vitue. |
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