The Landscape of the “Spirit of Sport”

Obasa, Mojisola; Borry, Pascal

doi:10.1007/s11673-019-09934-0

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“…This not only upholds the integrity of competition but also promotes a sense of equity among athletes and fans alike. The “Spirit of Sport” can be preserved by making sure the perception of fairness is held high and that the will to succeed does not lead to circumvention of rules and the use of illicit performance enhancers ( 57 , 58 ).…”

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Fighting fair: community perspectives on the fairness of performance enhancement in esports

Friehs,

Klarkowski,

Frommel

et al. 2024

Front. Sports Act. Living

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AimsThis study aims to explore community perspectives on enhancer usage in competitive gaming and esports, focusing on the perception of fairness and concerns about various potential performance enhancers.MethodsWe conducted both qualitative and quantitative surveys to understand the competitive gaming community's opinions on different types of performance enhancers and their potential impact on esports. A thematic analysis was performed to identify key themes in how players rationalize their opinions.ConclusionsThe gaming community differentiates between potential performance enhancers based on how problematic they are for the esports scene, with the most concern surrounding hard drugs, pharmaceuticals, and brain stimulation interventions. Participants who are more invested in competitive gaming tend to be more sceptical of enhancers and express greater concerns. Four themes were identified in the thematic analysis: (1) risk, (2) morality, (3) enhancer effects, and (4) regulation. To increase acceptance and perceived legitimacy in decision-making, it is recommended that regulators engage a variety of stakeholders in transparent decision-making processes when forming tournament rules and regulations. This will help address the fragmented regulatory landscape and prevent potential differences in the perception of tournament winners based on the governing body supervising the competition.

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Fighting fair: community perspectives on the fairness of performance enhancement in esports

Friehs,

Klarkowski,

Frommel

et al. 2024

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…The lack of emotional stability is associated with poor psychological preparation and lack of faith (Пајо, 1989;Tomić, Šoše, 1983). The awakening and strengthening of the spiritual and psychic in manathletes should strengthen it and prepare it for achieving even better results with optimal physical and spiritual burdens (Kejn, 1984;Obasa, Borry, 2019). Psychological factor is even more important in real battles.…”

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The Anthropological View on Human Body and Sports From the Constantine the Great to Nowadays

Vidaković,

K. Miletić,

M. Rajković

2024

SIJ

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Sport accomplishes humanity and acquires godliness. The culture of the spirit is in the service of bodily culture, which is why the sport is a great human victory over the ground, the road, the plot, the spiritual desert and the futility of culture without a cult. Sport in its pure form is not only a form of meaningless ritual, physical enjoyment, emphasis, form of idolatry, and fetishism, although it is obvious that sport is pushing into an abyss of total bodily activity. Sport is the answer to the innate man’s need to examine and move the boundaries of his own abilities and to deal with physical and mental activities that bring a sense of fulfilment and satisfaction in human life. Undoubted is the contribution of sports in creating work habits and in combating the alienation of people and other negative phenomena. Sport brings joy and builds complete personalities with healthy feelings, able to cope with the most difficult problems that life brings. Between the body and spirit there is a permanent connection and mutual effect. All that is happening in the soul of man during his life is essential and necessary and in the most intimate way connected with the life of the spirit, in which all the acts of the soul and the body are imprinted in it. The basic postulates of religion and sport are very close. Both in sport and in religion, a person wants and tends to feel better and be better. In doing so, it is advisable to follow the famous saying: “In the victory not be extoled, in defeat not be humiliated”. There are more and more doctors of science, but fewer scientists, more and more scientific papers, but less and less practical applicability of these... Unfortunately, schools and teachers teach pupils to repeat learned, instead of learning them to think and contemplate. The seemingly noble challenge ‘CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS‘- FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER can forget the man and the God in athletes.

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“…For example, Lee et al (2000) developed the Youth Sport Values Questionnaire. Obasa and Borry (2019) analyzed the multivalence of the concept of spirit of sport. The more adequate study among them is the personality structure of sports events ( Lee and Cho, 2012 ; De Vries, 2020 ).…”

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The psycho-lexical structure of sports culture

Guo

Hong

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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The psycho-lexical approach can be effectively used to explore the structure of sports culture. Based on a lexical list of adjective vocabulary reflecting sports culture and through an item analysis, 87 discriminating objectives were selected representing sports culture.ObjectiveTo explore the structure of sports culture from the objectives lexicons.MethodsItem analysis and factor analysis were adopted to abstract the structure of sports culture.ResultsThrough a principal component analysis, a structure of six factors including extroversion-activity, diligence-progression, experience, independence-excellence, enjoyment, and body culture was extracted. Through a second-order factor analysis, a psychological structure of sports culture consisting of six dimensions and 12 factors was extracted, and result of the reliability analysis revealed good Cronbach α coefficient and test–retest reliability coefficient.ConclusionThe psycho-lexical structure of sports culture can be used to understand structure of sports culture.

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The Landscape of the “Spirit of Sport”

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

Fighting fair: community perspectives on the fairness of performance enhancement in esports

Fighting fair: community perspectives on the fairness of performance enhancement in esports

The Anthropological View on Human Body and Sports From the Constantine the Great to Nowadays

The psycho-lexical structure of sports culture

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