Is winning important in sports?
Is winning important in sports? Winning will bring fame and fortune to sportsmen and bring their career to a whole new level and that is what most sportsman aim to be. Is through winning that sportsman gain their motivation to carry on playing as they have the burning passion to win more games and tittles. Furthermore winning is the ultimate aim of sportsmen’s trainings.
However no one is perfect, no one can win every game. No matter how good they are, there are times when sportsmen are off form, have health and injury problems or have their own problems off the sport’s ground which will affect their game. For example, world’s no. 1 tennis player, Roger Federer, lost to world’s no. 11, Andy Murray, in the ATP Dubai Tennis Championship. It was later found out that he had mononucleosis, which explains his poor form.
Winning is important but is not everything in sports; we do not see sportsmen giving up on their career after losing one game. That’s another part of sports, being resilience. Improving one self is also a vital part in sports, there is no one who can say that they have reached their peak and cannot improve anymore. Is through losing that sportsmen know their weakness, this way they can improve on their weakness and go on to win more games.
Is the journey to winning that is enriching; sportsmen may encounter failure along the way but that makes winning meaningful. Winning every game will make sportsmen feel that they are just winning another game; it becomes a norm to them, winning then is not as glorious as to those who experience failure before winning.
Therefore winning is important in sports, so is losing and values, such as resilience and teamwork, which are being taught through sports.
Sheng Quan
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