Other Generations Sport

I often think about the role that sport plays in our lives, and where it fits in with the rest of our busy schedules. I know it can be very different for each person, but I believe that in general we do not spend enough time playing it. If we can fit an hour into our day to surf the net or to watch television, why can’t we find time to go out and run around. I don’t blame technology, because the technological advances we have had are very important and make things so much easier, but we need to find an even balance. My parents, aunts and uncles, and grandparents always speak about how they used to be out and in the street playing cricket and football with their siblings and neighbours. I would love to be able to spend all my time out in the street kicking the footy with my brothers, but the few times we get to often do not last for long, and the dirty looks we get from people driving past are enough to put you off it.

We have also seen an increase in sport technology, but why have we don’t this? Every supplement that we take, or up to date, latest design sports equipment that we use, is it to optimise our performance so that we can get better or is it because we are lazy and don’t want to spend hours out on the paddock training for things? Sure, we may call it efficiency, but wouldn’t the research and breakthrough’s be better off in another area of life, such as health research?

Athletes are becoming faster, stronger, better, but what do we owe our generations for that? Everything has slowly been changing, from shoes to outfits, surfaces to arenas, and sporting equipment to the latest technology, all of these things make us break records from previous years, but can we really compare ourselves to athletes of the previous generation or the generation before that?