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What Is Sport?

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B. Jeu
Diogenes

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must necessarily begin-what is uppermost in mind is the thought of physical exercise and a moment of high emotion. Of what aspects of sport is one aware? There is physical exertion. For example, the sentence, in French, &dquo;Le medecin m’a recommande de faire du sport&dquo; signifies &dquo;to do exercise.&dquo; There is also a strongly emotional state of mind. The French expression &dquo;Cette reunion, c’etait du sport&dquo; means, unmistakably, &dquo;it was spirited.&dquo; Such metaphors allow us to foresee a possible duality of interpretation whereby we may adopt a medical point of view, reducing sport to nature, or a social-psychological one, analyzing the symbolism of recognition of the individual by the group. In its correct meaning there are-if one still holds to what