Yes, the sport once again and always the sport; challenge for some, torture and nightmare for so many.
And for you, what is sport? The illusion of fortune and recognition, the hope of the ideal body, or the emergence of love for a specialty as entertainment and the fact of sharing beautiful times with friends or family?
Sport is that and much more! But since when is it something as formal as the name defines it?
The story goes, that sport as such, was invented back in the 18th century, before that certain activities were known as “games” or “physical activities” among which were running and swimming.
But as we said before and going to 7 centuries before the Christian era, the Greeks excelled, due to the importance they had in their culture, with games that we could name as the predecessors of the current OLYMPIC games, with disciplines such as: Fighting, Horse racing and athletic races among the participants. These games lasted six days.
However, in the early days of Spanish, the word SPORTS, which means DISTRACTION / GAME, illustrated the reason for those disciplines that began to be regulated and called SPORTS, as entertainment and recreation.
“How much water passed under the bridge” and as spurious interests and social needs, they distorted the very purpose of that name, which was and should continue to be the true purpose of sports.
But not to be disappointed or think that everything is lost, like many things to enjoy, to learn, or to contribute, let us bear in mind that it depends specifically and exclusively on us how to live them, so ENJOY…. sport is here too.
We will share your time in this publication, with sports news and we will include the origin of the different sports disciplines of which, perhaps you have never heard of them or the name.
Thank you for being with us sharing our culture, the HUMAN culture.
Until next time, sincerely
Fernando Hortal
