What event is taking place between 14 August and 26 August in Singapore? It is the Youth Olympic Games! The values are excellence, friendship and respect. Everyone is supposed to execute these values in all sporting events. My interpretation for these values are as follows: Strive for perfection in everything, make friends in sporting activities and have respect for one another during the competitions.
Another value that can be added on is sportsmanship. It means to celebrate victory as a team and accept defeat gracefully. It also means to respect your own team-mates as well as your opponents.
Sportsmanship is not shown in the recent rugby furore between ACS(I) and St'Andrews. The post-game scuffle and pitch invasion after ACS(I) defeated St'Andrews 8-7 had unleashed plenty of debate. In this case, both parties crossed the sportsmanship line. Two wrongs do not make one right. Both parties were at fault, as it was not right to insult one's parents and it was also wrong to retaliate.
Sometimes, schools put too much pressure on students to perform exceptionally well in competitions, causing stress. So, temper blows when the team loses. Contact sports are naturally more aggressive, so players must learn to control their temper. Vulgarities and violence should not be allowed in any sports. I think that schools must inculcate athletic values in students. If schools do not bother to teach the students, then sportsmanship will soon be outdated.
Although I play basketball, I had never been in a sticky situation and I hope I never face any!any!
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I agree on the importance of sportsmanship as what is important in a game is that we learn from them. Through competitions, we can gather our experience and strive another time we have the chance to participate in any competition. Then, I totally agree on the statement " Strive for the best". I suppose that when someone lose, the first emotion that comes by must be anger or disppointment. However, if we think carefully, we should not be angry if we did try our very best, and if we did not, we should just be disppointed why we did not do our best but not why we did not win
ReplyDeleteI do agree that I will never want to face a situation where someone is insulting me after a loss. Even though I know that we should not retaliate, but saying is easier than doing. I have no idea what I would do, should I be in such a situation, but should I be in one, I would try to keep my head on and not lose it. After all, if we retaliate, it just goes to show our personality. However, if we do not retaliate, then we will be out of trouble, and the other party might get into one.
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