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Athletes should be grounded in their faith and encouraged to engage in prayer and spiritual reading. Historically, sports were considered to be a virtue-making machine. The values that correspond with sports were considered to go hand in hand with those that go into being a person of integrity and faith.
closeToday, however, sports are increasingly associated with violence, drugs, racism and money. Vince Lombardi, former coach of the Super Bowl winning Green Bay Packers football team, spoke for a generation when he said ``winning isn't everything; it's the only thing."
This mentality has unfortunately become a large part of sports today. Sports should be a vehicle to develop good character, to make people courageous, generous losers, and gracious victors.
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Athletes should be grounded in their faith and encouraged to engage in prayer and spiritual reading. Historically, sports were considered to be a virtue-making machine. The values that correspond with sports were considered to go hand in hand with those that go into being a person of integrity and faith.
closeToday, however, sports are increasingly associated with violence, drugs, racism and money. Vince Lombardi, former coach of the Super Bowl winning Green Bay Packers football team, spoke for a generation when he said ``winning isn't everything; it's the only thing."
This mentality has unfortunately become a large part of sports today. Sports should be a vehicle to develop good character, to make people courageous, generous losers, and gracious victors.
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Against a backdrop of fresh match-fixing allegations in New Zealand cricket, ongoing rumblings over the Essendon supplements scandal and more footballers misbehaving outside nightclubs, I couldn't help notice an unfamiliar voice in the world of sports commentary - the Pope.
Last week, Pope Francis spoke passionately about sport as ''a significant means of fostering the integral growth of the human person'', of creating friendships and of surpassing ''borders, languages, races, religions and ideologies''. Simply, sport as a power for good.
It resonated with a story I had heard of an aid worker telling a sheikh of the problems they were having in a refugee camp. The ground was all rocky and the children were getting bored. They were becoming violent. The elder organised for tonnes of sand to be shipped in and the ground levelled. When the soccer balls arrived, fighting was replaced by smiles and laughter.
It is not unlike beach cricket as a child. You would start a game with just a boogie board as a wicket, a ball and a bat. Ten minutes later, you would have another half dozen children join the game, your new best friends. It is the magnetism of a sporting contest.
So where is the tipping point? When does the pure joy of beach cricket turn into match fixing? When do the jelly snakes at cold, windy, muddy cross-country carnivals turn to doping? When does the footy fundraiser barbecue turn into 3am fights between teammates?
I think the concept of ''winning'' has a lot to answer for - not to mention the replacement of an intrinsic desire to be your best with the pursuit of financial reward.
The Pope said: ''When sport is viewed solely in economic terms or as the pursuit of victory at all costs, we run the risk of reducing athletes to mere products from which to profit. Athletes themselves enter a system that sweeps them away; they can lose the true meaning of their activity, that joy and play that attracted them as young people, which drove them to make so many sacrifices to become champions. Sport is harmony, but if the immoderate pursuit of money and success takes over, this harmony can be lost.''
Dreaming of winning - whether it be at an Olympics, on grand final day or on the local sports ground - is not the problem. Dreams give us the ''why'' and get us out of bed in the morning. It is those dreams that keep us going when our bodies say ''stop''.
Sport would be meaningless if neither team cared whether they won or lost. The tension of competitors vying to be the best is what makes sport exciting and meaningful. Trying to win and training to win is vitally important. But aspiring to win is vastly different from winning at all costs.
As sportspeople, we can control how good we can be. We can train to improve ourselves every session, to learn to compete better, to strengthen our mental skills and our physical capacity. We cannot control how good our opponents are.
True sportsmanship is also about respecting your opposition for the commitment they have shown, irrespective of who wins. Sport is about training to know how to do your best, doing your best, then working out how you can do better. Innate satisfaction derives from knowing that you raced or played to your absolute best.
This is a concept too often overlooked in the hurly burly of modern sport.
Last weekend, I raced in the Head of the Yarra for Melbourne University Boat Club. It is a race in eights over a windy, 8.6-kilometre course on the Yarra River. Our crew desperately wanted to win this race. On this occasion though, our arch rival Mercantile triumphed.
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Against a backdrop of fresh match-fixing allegations in New Zealand cricket, ongoing rumblings over the Essendon supplements scandal and more footballers misbehaving outside nightclubs, I couldn't help notice an unfamiliar voice in the world of sports commentary - the Pope.
Last week, Pope Francis spoke passionately about sport as ''a significant means of fostering the integral growth of the human person'', of creating friendships and of surpassing ''borders, languages, races, religions and ideologies''. Simply, sport as a power for good.
It resonated with a story I had heard of an aid worker telling a sheikh of the problems they were having in a refugee camp. The ground was all rocky and the children were getting bored. They were becoming violent. The elder organised for tonnes of sand to be shipped in and the ground levelled. When the soccer balls arrived, fighting was replaced by smiles and laughter.
It is not unlike beach cricket as a child. You would start a game with just a boogie board as a wicket, a ball and a bat. Ten minutes later, you would have another half dozen children join the game, your new best friends. It is the magnetism of a sporting contest.
So where is the tipping point? When does the pure joy of beach cricket turn into match fixing? When do the jelly snakes at cold, windy, muddy cross-country carnivals turn to doping? When does the footy fundraiser barbecue turn into 3am fights between teammates?
I think the concept of ''winning'' has a lot to answer for - not to mention the replacement of an intrinsic desire to be your best with the pursuit of financial reward.
The Pope said: ''When sport is viewed solely in economic terms or as the pursuit of victory at all costs, we run the risk of reducing athletes to mere products from which to profit. Athletes themselves enter a system that sweeps them away; they can lose the true meaning of their activity, that joy and play that attracted them as young people, which drove them to make so many sacrifices to become champions. Sport is harmony, but if the immoderate pursuit of money and success takes over, this harmony can be lost.''
Dreaming of winning - whether it be at an Olympics, on grand final day or on the local sports ground - is not the problem. Dreams give us the ''why'' and get us out of bed in the morning. It is those dreams that keep us going when our bodies say ''stop''.
Sport would be meaningless if neither team cared whether they won or lost. The tension of competitors vying to be the best is what makes sport exciting and meaningful. Trying to win and training to win is vitally important. But aspiring to win is vastly different from winning at all costs.
As sportspeople, we can control how good we can be. We can train to improve ourselves every session, to learn to compete better, to strengthen our mental skills and our physical capacity. We cannot control how good our opponents are.
True sportsmanship is also about respecting your opposition for the commitment they have shown, irrespective of who wins. Sport is about training to know how to do your best, doing your best, then working out how you can do better. Innate satisfaction derives from knowing that you raced or played to your absolute best.
This is a concept too often overlooked in the hurly burly of modern sport.
Last weekend, I raced in the Head of the Yarra for Melbourne University Boat Club. It is a race in eights over a windy, 8.6-kilometre course on the Yarra River. Our crew desperately wanted to win this race. On this occasion though, our arch rival Mercantile triumphed.
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