Is winning the most important thing in sports?

Winning is definitely important in sports. It is one of the factor that pushes one to his or her limits. Winning is what most atheletes have in their mindset that spurs them to achieve greater heights. With these encouragements, only can atheletes constantly improve. Sports competitions are held almost everywhere on Earth and at least once in a year. Such competitions include global ones-Olympics Games, SEA Games, Youth Olympics,Fifa World Cup which is held once every four years as well as smaller scale competitions which are held in individual countries. The definition of competition is a situation in which people try to be more successful than other people. In other words competition is a situation in which people try to win others. Thus with all these sports competitions that are organised frequently, how is it possible to say that winning is not important in sports?

One other key essense in sports is sportsmanship. To have sportsmanship means to have a behavior that is fair, honest, and polite in a sports competition or games. Playing fair and treating one's teammates and opponents politely is important in a competition. This is because one is actually competing his true skills or talents against his opponent in sports competition. Therefore there is no point to take drugs such as steroids, resort to using undermeans methods like adding laxative to one's opponent's drink, making him unfit to enter a competition and also injure someone in a game so severely that he has to be taken out from a competiton to win. If one wants to win in a competition, he should win it with glory based on his true capabilities. Next, no matter who win in a competition, one must always treat his teammates and opponents politely. One will surely feel bad if he were to lose in a competition, however that is not an excuse to put blame on others and shouting at his opponents. He should instead learn from his failure and try harder next time.

Though winning and having good sportsmanship are important in sports, however in my opinion, i would say that the most important thing in sports is having good sportsmanship. Like what I always hear from my teacher in my science practical, '' The results are not as important, what is most important is the process.''. Similarly, what is important in sports is the process to see your true abilities, at the same time to most atheletes, to pursue their interests.


Kerby =x (ShanGui)