: Coronavirus: It’s important to recognise the role sports play in our lives – even in difficult times #IndiaNEWS Most of the sports world has ground to a halt over the coronavirus pandemic. The

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Coronavirus: It’s important to recognise the role sports play in our lives – even in difficult times #IndiaNEWS
Most of the sports world has ground to a halt over the coronavirus pandemic. The Tokyo Olympic Games, the NBA season, and soccer’s Champions League, along with many other major tournaments, have been postponed. Wimbledon has been canceled for the first time since World War II. These cancellations and postponements go all the way down to recreational competitions.Given the impact that any large gathering could have on the further spread of the pandemic, several sports commentators, noted that at this point in time, sports did not matter. The New York Times sports commentator wrote, “Postpone it, cancel it, whatever. There are more important things to think about. It is a sport, after all,� referring to the cancellation of soccer’s Champions League.The present sentiment is a reminder of a popular phrase typically attributed to former coach and player Arrigo Sacchi that soccer was “the most important of the unimportant things in life.�At a time when the utmost urgency on everyone’s mind is the fragility of life itself, this couldn’t appear to be more true.At the same time, as philosophers of sport, we believe that it is important to recognise the role sports play in our lives – even in difficult times.The nature of sportsThe point of sports, as philosopher Bernard Suits argues, lies in voluntarily attempting to overcome artificial problems erected by...Read more

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