Question

Provide an example not mentioned in this week’s reading that demonstrate sport as a site for presenting ideas and beliefs.

Answer 1

Sports

According to the council of Europe - sport means all forms of physical activity, which through casual or organised participation, aim at expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well-being, forming social relationships or obtaining results in competition at all levels".

Nowadays young people show great enthusiasm in partcipating sporting events. As per studies 60% people in Europe attend a sport activity at least once a week.

Example, how a sport could display the idea and information we intended to share in to the world?

Recently during a football match, players of an entire team stood still for a minute prior to the match in order to show their support to the victims of racism in the field.

This created an awareness among the crowd gathered to watch the game. Interestingly the whole crowd were supportive and applauded the act of kindness.

Here they used sports as medium to display their solidarity towards a group of people.

Indeed it's a great platform to use to get mass reach for their messages since people are kneen to know what's happening in sports and games.