Fair play

The fair-play (of the English fair play ) is a made up English expression to fair clearly “, frankly, honest, without Tricherie” and of play “play”, indicating an honest control in a play, then in all circumstances. Usually used in the world of the sport, this term recovers at the same time the respect of the adversary, the rules, the decisions of the referee, the public and the spirit of the play, but also honesty, the self-control and dignity in the victory as in the defeat.

The term is employed by Montalembert as of 1856 in France. It since entered the current language in many languages and constitutes an essential part of the “values of the sport”. The English term to indicate the fair play is Sportsmanship (sportivity) while the expression fair play indicates above all a great hit on the other side of the channel, in the well played direction. In the beginning, it is an expression which is attached to the vocabulary of the Cricket in opposition to unfair it play, which consists mainly of a fault of the launcher whose ball is considered to be dangerous for the safety of the adversary.

One will note the predisposition of the collective sports to vampiriser today this topic. However, of the attitudes which one would describe today as fair play already exist in the individual sport of the old Greeks. And these gestures, these attitudes, were often greeted by the public and the poets, as they are it nowadays by the televiewers and the journalists. Respect of the Judo ka with the smile of a Roger Federer, model of the contemporary sense of smell-play, the individual sports still combine at the present this value while certain collective sports the such Football, the Handball or the Hockey, to quote only them, the fair play is erased clearly in front of the effectiveness. The idyllic time is always in vain sought during which the sense of smell-play was cardinal value; Such a period existed forever. Thus, in term of violence, the tendency would be even rather with the fall. One often attends finales of world cup resembling one battle field more that at a football stadium, as it was the case in 1930 with Montevideo and one does not count any more the characterized aggressions aiming at wounding a player seriously, as that was the case for Pelé at the time of the Football world cup of 1966, in particular. Zinedine Zidane will remain for certain like the author of the most media blow of the head of the history, it remains however in the memories of the majority of its contemporaries as the antithesis of certain butchers who officiated in defense of the end of the 19th century at the end of the Années 1970.

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