Can competitive sports be unhealthy? Good question. And that's a "yes" if one steps back and looks at the whole. A BIG yes. First there is the possibility of physical injury in a sport. Some sports injuries can be repeated with d...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_competitive_sports_be_unh...
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So why when they get to be on a competitive sports team do we suddenly throw health concerns out the window fighting and bending the rules designed to protect them?
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articles.sfgate.com/2007-04-15/living/17238928_1_overus...
articles.sfgate.com/2007-04-15/living/17238928_1_overuse-injuries-multiple-sports-sport-psychiatry-associates
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People who advise competitive players often recommend that they imagine themselves completing a pass, ... If sports make you so nervous that you get headaches, become nauseated, or can't concentrate on other things, you're experiencing symptoms of unhealthy, potentially chronic (which means long-lasting and continuous) stress.
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kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/sports/sports_pressure...
kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/sports/sports_pressure.html
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The average American child usually will start to participate actively in competitive sports between the ages of six and twelve and can be unhealthy to a child's development (CWG 131). The question at what age a child should start, has a different answer for each individual child.
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www.planetpapers.com/Assets/988.php
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KidsHealth - when too much exercise becomes unhealthy. ... National Alliance for Youth Sports - suggestions for keeping sports competitive, not violent...
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www.saferchild.org/general3.htm
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CBC News Online - Your Canadian source for sports news ... A German court later found ex-East German sports boss Manfred Ewald and his medical director, Manfred Hoeppner, culpable for what it called "systematic and overall doping in [East German] competitive sports" until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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www.cbc.ca/sports/columns/top10/cheats.html
www.cbc.ca/sports/columns/top10/cheats.html
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A Penn State researcher contends those pressures are leading girls and boys down unhealthy avenues such as the misuse of anabolic steroids. ... In addition, children are entering competitive sports at younger ages and many working families have children signed up in two or three sports. Parents, coaches and young athletes...
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www.psu.edu/ur/2000/kidssteroids.html
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A head teacher tells parents to stay away or run the risk of "embarrassing" unsuccessful pupils. ... My son's primary school had non-competitive sports days until quite recently, they were a complete farce. The trouble is in life we never all hold hands and step over the finish line together. David, UK...
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3039553.stm
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An article by Christopher Lasch from The New York Review of Books, September 29, 1977 ... In fact, there often existed in the 1960s a sharp dichotomy between student and intellectual activists and "jocks," including those athletes who were beginning to question the organization of competitive sports.
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www.nybooks.com/articles/8383
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