The Sport Ethic:
Sports ethic defines how a
given athlete should be have in order to perform at the highest standard in
order to sacrifice, take risks, and put it all on the line for the sake of “The
Game”. The four dimensions of this
Sport Ethic concept is sacrificing for the game, striving for distinction,
accepting risks and playing through pain, and refusing to accept the limit of
possibilities. Athletes choose to
conform (and at times even over conform, which can potentially lead to
deviance) to this set of values in order to stay as competitive as possible
among one another and ensure that they are the best. I personally have dealt with accepting risks and playing
through pain when I played basketball and football in high school. Most of my senior year of high school I
was recovering from a fractured vertebrae but I was very hard headed and
refused to stop playing in games even when the pain got bad mainly because of
this aspect of the Sports Ethic.
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