Being a SportBeing a Sport

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• If we want someone to be fair or to do the right thing we say….

•“Be a sport!”

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• We admire sporting superstars

• Not only for their ability

• But also for being honest and playing fair

Cheats Never Beat• It takes strength of

character to play hard and to play within the rules.

Cheats Never Beat• It takes

discipline to tackle hard but to tackle fairly.

Cheats Never Beat• It takes

commitment to practise your skills and to train hard to be as good as you can be.

• To do less is to cheat yourself and to cheat your teammates.

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• Practising hard brings its own rewards.

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• The best players show respect for opponents before, during and after the game.

• Showing respect for opponents shows respect for the game and respect for yourself.

Cheats Never Beat• If you show all these qualities,

• everyone will respect you.

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• The modern Olympics were created by Pierre de Coubertin

• He believed in the spirit of fair competition

• Unfortunately ….

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• …. not everyone in sport has always lived up to Coubertin’s high standards of honesty.

This team is the Chicago White Sox team of 1919

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• Their most famous player was ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson.

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• In the World Series Final of 1919 Joe and seven other White Sox players took bribes to lose to the Cincinnati Reds.

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• The players were found guilty in court.

• On their way out, a young boy called to Jackson

• “Say it ain’t so, Joe!”• The phrase became one of

the most famous in American sports history.

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• The hardest race in athletics is the Marathon.

• Competitors run for over 26 miles!

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• At the St Louis Olympic Games of 1904

• Fred Lorz was the first to cross the finishing line

• Before he received his gold medal….

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• …it was discovered he had hitched a lift and travelled 11 miles by car!

• This is what inspired this cartoon

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• Boris Onischenko was an army officer from the Ukraine.

• He won a silver medal in the 1972 Olympics in Munich.

• He entered the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.

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• In a fencing competition

• Onischenko wired his sword so that when he touched a trigger, the sword buzzed as if he had made a hit on his opponent.

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• Boris Onischenko was discovered and sent home in disgrace.

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• At the 1986 World Cup in Mexico

• Argentina won the final.

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• But in the quarter final against England

• Diego Maradona cheated by handling a goal.

• He later said:• “It was the hand of God!”• His cheated ‘hand of God’

goal is remembered better than the brilliant goal that he scored later in the same game.

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• In the 1988 Seoul Olympics

• Ben Johnson broke the world record for the 100 metre sprint.

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• Later, a drugs test showed that Johnson had cheated.

• He had been taking a banned drug.

• The drugs made him run faster…

• …but would ruin his health.

Cheats Never Beat• In 1981 the Australian

cricketer Trevor Chappell was instructed by his captain (also his brother!) to bowl underarm so that the New Zealand batsman Brian Mackechnie could not hit a six off the last ball of the match.

Cheats Never Beat• Although not

against the rules the cricket authorities quickly outlawed underarm bowling to stop unsportsmanlike behaviour.

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• In 2009 Harlequins Rugby Union Club faked a blood injury to winger Tom Williams so they could falsely substitute him to bring on a substitute who could kick a winning goal.

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• In 1916, B Eastwood of Crosland Moor Bowling Club played badly on purpose. He was trying to lose a bowls match at Dalton so that his friend could win a bet.

• He was banned for life from playing bowls in Huddersfield.

• Big G says:Big G says:• “Cheats lose the

most important things in life…

• …their reputation and their good name!”