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Sport in our life

Sport plays an important role in our life.

Sport helps people to keep fit and to be healthy and wealthy. It helps people to be healthy and to have a great figure.

Sport unites people. Thousands of fans watch sports games and competitions, even enemies hug when their favourite team wins competitions. Those who go in for sports study to work in a team and to take efforts to achieve something.

The result of sports is a great sum of money. But in the majority of cases people go in for sports not to earn money but because they love sports and want to set some records and gain the first prises.

Vocabulary defines sport an organised physical and mental activity of people that has some rules and prescriptions. It is also training and relations that appear in the process of going in for sport.

Usually sport is a specific physical and intellectual activity that is realized with the aim of moral and material satisfaction, the desire for improvement and glory.

Sport may be a hobby and a profession. There are a lot of places that give a possibility to go in for sports. Stadiums, gyms, swimming pools and many other places are specially equipped for practicing sports. Some people get up at 6 in the morning for making a traditional run in the park. That helps to keep fit and have a gorgeous body.

Professional sport requires a lot of time and efforts. Sportsmen have to spend hours in the gym with their coaches to achieve results. Competitions especially world ones are of great prestige and only the best sportsmen take part in them.

Sport impresses. You watch competitions in gymnastics, swimming and just don't stop wondering how they do those acrobatic tricks. Sometimes you can't believe that a human body is able to do these tricks.

Sport gives a lot of energy which inspires people to greater efforts and achievements. Sportsmen become idols for teenagers and adults. Sport makes them famous. Such world-known celebrities as David Beckham, Andrew Shevchenko, Michael Tyson have become popular thanks to sports.

But sport has disadvantages also. Injuries sustained during practicing sports may be very serious and some sportsmen need a lot of time to get back to it. Some injuries make people invalids and they become unable to go in for sports again.

The career of sportsmen ends quickly. You have to retire when you are 30 because you are not able to compete with younger sportsmen any more. And then a culminate moment comes. Some sportsmen don't imagine their life without sports and don't know what to do after their career is over. Others become coaches and try to participate in sports business and life.

A coach should also be a doctor, a psychologist and a sportsman. A coach should know all the necessary physical exercises.

There are a lot of institutes that were created to control sportsmen and sport in general.