Honesty, respect for opponents and judges - these are the basic rules that are promoted in sports. These ideas are officially enshrined in a movement known throughout the world as fair play.
Key principles
Fair play (translated from English) is a set of moral and ethical rules that apply to sports. This code is intended to make sports fair and fair.
The basic principle of fair play is respect for the opponent, for the referees and for the rules of the game. Athletes are ordered to make all decisions of the arbitrators, challenging them in a special manner and as correctly as possible.
Fair play prohibits the use of doping and any other means of artificial stimulation. The rules of fair play stipulate that athletes must have an equal chance of winning at the start of the competition. At the same time, participants are advised to restrain emotions and adequately accept the results of the competition.
Fair play history
This concept began to emerge in the era of the formation of modern sports, in the 19th century. Then sports competitions were held mainly between representatives of the middle and upper strata of society. There were certain principles of behavior of a gentleman who paid more attention to the very process of the game than to its result.
Fair play was developed in the Olympic movement, which promoted humanistic ideas, sought to make sport disinterested and direct it to the formation of a harmonious personality.
Organization of movement
Globally, the fair play movement is coordinated by the International Council for Sports Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE), which was established in 1958. Special divisions promoting the idea of fair play also exist under the Olympic committees of different countries and the international federations of individual sports. Close attention is paid to the work on the dissemination of fair play norms in children and youth sports.
Examples of fair play
In the sports world, there have been many cases when competitors followed the principles of fair play. However, a classic example of nobility in sports is the act of the USSR national football team player Igor Netto.
In 1962, the Soviet team played a World Cup group stage match with the Uruguay national team. The national team of the Soviet Union scored a goal for the Latin Americans, but the ball ended up in the net, flying through the hole formed in it. The ball should not have been counted, which is what Net and indicated to the referee. As a result, the goal was rightly canceled, but the USSR team still won that match.
