[Download] "Avery Brundage on Amateurism: Preaching and Practice" by Maynard Brichford ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Avery Brundage on Amateurism: Preaching and Practice
- Author : Maynard Brichford
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Sports & Outdoors,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation. (1) The Webster's unabridged dictionary defined sports amateurism as the practice characteristic of an amateur sportsman as one who engages in sport solely for the pleasure and physical, mental or social benefits he may derive there from, and to whom sport is nothing more than an avocation. This definition comes from the constitution of the Amateur Athletic Union, of which Mr. Brundage was the president. Sport is defined as a diversion, game or contest. Competitive sport involves success, as in the Olympic motto-citius, altius, fortius. Professionalism is following a profession or sport for a livelihood, or for gain. In the private sector, it may involve the "Midas touch." It may also lead to the zealous retention of wealth as advocated by the "Tea Party" politicians and the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government affiliated with the University of Illinois Foundation. (2)
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