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Like it or not, most of modern sport is for media. Almost all people at Olympic level are paid by media and marketing to perform for media and marketing. Some a
by lmilcin 5y ago
Like it or not, most of modern sport is for media. Almost all people at Olympic level are paid by media and marketing to perform for media and marketing. Some are paid by states to perform for their media and propaganda.
- epistasis 5y agoI think this is largely the point of competitive sports, the performance for a crowd. Sports which are done purely for those doing the actual activity are great, but tend to be more recreational than competitive.
- ThePadawan 5y agoI still find it fascinating (and linguistically a bit of a struggle) that sport and exercise are even different words in English. In my native German, there's only "Sport", which is used both to describe physical exercise as well the uncountable English "sports".