Sports: A Medium to Unite People

Sport has the power to change the world as rightfully quoted by Nelson Mandela emphasizes the significance sports hold in the lives of individuals. Often, children's participation in sports is resented and their studies are given greater importance, resulting in discouragement of children and further halts their career in sports. Society fails to understand that Sports have the potential to unite people, carry them forward together, and improve one's mental and physical well-being. While playing a sport, the players leave behind their past identities and share a uniformed identity, a mutual identity. Here everyone who participates is just a player irrespective of their cultural, racial, and regional backgrounds.

While watching any sport, the entire audience becomes one people, despite having little in common, come together as fans and as players, and put those differences aside for the sake of their teams. They cheer and applaud their favorite players, creating a sense of commonality and unity between them. In India, the obsession with sports, especially cricket, can be seen in every other street. Children, adults enjoyingly play together. The essence of sportspersonship is entirely found even in little children. For ages, sports has United many. Sport has the ability It has United those with quite indifferences and a reason to play along with each other, to unite countries with ongoing conflicts and chaotic backgrounds.

Be it uniting, entertaining, inducing patriotism, or inspiration, sport does all. The World Economic Forum in 2018 posted an article entitled, The uniquely unifying power of sports, and why it matters. The author, Mark Ein, stated Any discussion of the power of sport has finally to include its importance as a vehicle to teach our youth  and the rest of us  the lessons of leadership, good health, teamwork, fair play, self-reliance, and continuous improvement.

By: Srishti Mehta
Christ Church Senior Secondary School, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh