the following text by Berthold Brecht I here found on the Web.
Sport has two main enemies, he can be really dangerous.
First, there are people who want to make of him with all his might a hygienic movement.
This works sort of people with a preference under the motto that sport is healthy, and tries to in schools and also through the popular literature, what is at real sporting spirit among the younger people to ruin for all time. Of course, sports, namely real passionate sports, risky sport, not healthy. Where he really has nothing to do with combat, record and risk, he needs even extraordinary efforts of the practitioners of him, his health to some extent to keep the height. I do not believe that Lindbergh has extended his life by his ocean air for ten years. Boxes for the purpose of raising the stool is not a sport. The purpose of the sport is not, of course, physical exercise, but the purpose of physical education can be sports.
The second main opponents of the sport is the scientific fad.
subheading unfortunately mostly with special support from the press, "the frantic efforts of some" expert, to make the sport a kind of "art." These experts is now growing again at the bare hand a whole nomenclature of terms, and the trend is more and more of l'art pour l'art.
expressed in boxing, this sport hostile tendency in the propagation of the point process. The further the sport of boxing by knockout removed, the less he has with real Sport to do. A boxer who can not beat down his opponent, it does not, of course, defeated. Look deliver two men on a street corner or in a pub for a fight. How do you envision a point before this game? The main natural mortal enemies of the naive and popular sport of boxing, are those scholars who sit on the ropes and collect in their hats into points.
me understand: the "rational," "fine" and "socially acceptable" is the sport, and he now has a strong tendency, the worse it becomes.
