Should Handball Be An Olympic Sport?

Should children under the age of 12 be allowed to play tackle football? These people playing at a very young age do risk brain trauma, and development of brain diseases such as CTE. According to the passage, a man named Joseph Chernach who played tackle football since 11 years old hung himself at 25 due to CTE, which he acquired while playing tackle football. The text also states that "We have to prove that Pop Warner was a substantial factor in him getting it [CTE], and we knew from research

Video games have been around for many years and so has competitive gaming. The first video game was created around 1970 and was Pong. Pong required one or two players to play. The players would play next to each other and the game required both players to move the courser to the ball and knock in to the other player’s side. Pong was the first competitive video game because you could play with another person. The video game industry now is a very big market and is suspected to be an 86 billion dollar industry in 2016 (A Classification Of Business Models In Video Game Industry). For the past couple of years video competitions have gotten really popular and now there is a franchise called eSports that hosts gaming competitions in big areas. “The past several year’s eSports have seen meteoric growth in dozens of markets, attracting tens of millions of viewers each year in the United States, alone” (Hollist). Esports is made up of many different games and each game has different teams that specialize in the game that they are competing in. E-Sports 89 million viewers in 2014 and is suspected to grow to 145 million in 2017. ("Red Bull Media Readies ESports Studio for Prime Time."). Competitive gaming should be recognized as a sport because each team has a sponsor. The sponsors pay for all associated costs of the player’s gaming including, but not limited to, plane tickets, hotel rooms, and food. In return the teams have to wear the

Throughout the years, we have seen an evolution in sports and our thoughts, opinions, and attitudes about what is considered a sport, rules, who should be allowed to participate, and how they are played. Sports were initially seen as a way to keep fit, or to pass time. Sports were used as another way to establish classes. Today, sports are used for entertainment and profit. Sports are serious business and bring in billions of dollars annually.

There is an argument as to whether or not the United States should bid to host the Olympic Games. There are many positive and negative reasons as to help decide whether it will be or not be a good idea. Some positive reasons would be improvements in all types of transport, increase potentially in tourism and business activity. Some of the negative aspects would be potential costs and burdens to the community and an increase in costs and taxes. Many people are going back and forth arguing over this topic. The United States should bid to host the Olympic Games.

Even today, although it is an international game, it has been slow to gain popularity as an intercollegiate sport in this country. It is however, gaining popularity and is being included in physical education

A controversial issue has been whether or not contact sports should be played in high school. People believe that contact sports should not be allowed to be played by the youth in high school. This issue is serious enough to have safety laws. For instance, a traumatic brain injury (TBI) law is the Zackery Lystedt Law. The Zachery Lystedt Law was the first law to protect the safety of young athletes when the get concussions. This law says that children must not participate in sorts related functions, such as practices and games, until they are medically cleared to do so. Various reasons include exceeded the joys and benefits of playing contact sports. Said reasons include long term injuries, intense amounts of money needed, thus more sponsors needed, and contact sports have a trend of causing drug abuse.

Lacrosse is a growing sport, in the past few years lacrosse has become more well known. Others say that it shouldn’t be in the olympics because it isn't an international sport. It’s not played all over the world , but according to Indian Country Today “In the U.S., no sport has grown faster at the high school level over the last 10 years than any other sport.” as you can see this is why it should be in the summer olympics along with the other sports in the summer olympics. As a matter of fact it was in the 1908 olympics.

I think that lacrosse should be in the Olympic because it is the first native american sport that was played and in the olympics they play hockey, soccer and basketball all for these sports are all played like lacrosse they have the same goal and that is to work together and get the ball into the goal and the more points you get you win the game when the time runs out and the game. And all these sports require you to have work with other people even if you get along with them if you want to win you will work with them. Soccer and lacrosse in the same way because they have players that can only have a certain amount player on one side of the field at one time and on both sides of the fields are the goals and the each team has a goalie. And they

“The inclusion of the package of new sports will afford young athletes the chance of a lifetime to realize their dreams of competing in the Olympic Games – the world's greatest sporting stage – and inspire them to achieve their best, both in sport and in life (Elliott).” Softball should be back in the Olympics because it makes money and and benefits players by increasing interests.

It’s been proven that baseball has not been as popular because games are played during school time mostly, and most of its’ viewers are teenagers. Because, many people believe that it is boring but, everyone has their own opinion on their stand of it. Baseball was proven to have one of the best atmosphere’s in sports because all the fans are energetic and speak for there team and so many people around in a stadium, depending on how many

According to the article titled “History of Lacrosse” it is one of the world’s fastest growing sports with 500,000 players. This means that it would draw big crowds if it were in the olympics which means more profits for the people running the olympics and for people with businesses near where they are hosting the olympics. Next according to the article titled “National Lacrosse Participation Grows 3.5 Percent in 2014” they said that in the International Lacrosse World Championship, 38 countries played. This means that by the time it is an olympic sport we will probably fill the number of required countries that compete in a summer olympic

With the multi-billions of dollars that the Olympics earn and spend, it’s certainly is in the best interest of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to remain under the circumstances of keeping sport open to professional athletes, not only financially, but as well as the majority of their viewers. In this position statement, I will use historic International Olympic Committee guidelines (1964) and official IOC reports as a basis for proving that professional athletes should be allowed to participate in the Olympic Games.

Sports differ in many ways even the things that should be the same can be complete opposites. I have played football, basketball, soccer, track, and cross country and I never payed attention to running in any of those sports except for in track and cross country. I did not notice the amount of running I did in all those sport until I had to only focus on the running aspect. To this day I can say I have learned lessons in all of my sports, but running sports have taught me the most. Running is mandatory in so many sports, yet it has presented some of the largest obstacles for a me to overcome mentally.

Imagine a large arena filled with two competitive teams. The tension grows and finally, one team prevails and is greeted by stupendous amounts of cheering. There are a wide variety of video games that are popular worldwide, and are played by many different people. Video games, and gaming in general, should be considered to be added in the many sport selections because of how similar it is to any other sport: how pro players that get paid, and how a lot of talent is necessary to play.

A sport is defined as an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature. Competitive. Competition is a rivalry between two or more persons or groups for an object desired in common, usually resulting in a victor and a loser. Something to argue would be if a competition could legitimately be considered a sport. The word ‘compete’ is in the definition of sport after all. So, should eSports, or Electronic Sports, be considered a sport?