As times change! Today, the wide range of entertainment of all kinds gives us the impression of a decline in the sport. It is not uncommon to hear one of those baby boomers at great cry proclaiming that "in his time, he was still outside to play sports." With the ubiquity of computers and game consoles, we can understand some parents to offer their children to go out and play.
But long before the digital age, some lament that young people are too often outside to play their favourite sport. Bishop George Leo Pelletier, bishop of Trois-Rivières, spoke against the abuse of sport at the provincial annual congress of the General Association of alumni of the Brothers of Christian Instruction in October 1951.
"I am concerned to see the sport take a large place in the lives of our youth it is becoming a goal instead of a simple average. Children think in one way and lose exclusive taste of the study. I rise not against sports, but against the abuse that in fact. In this area as in all things, we must not exceed the measure. If we are reduced to begging for the education of our young people, the few educational inputs it may contain, ignoring increasingly solid education and religious formation, it is a disqualification. Sport is a bit like strychnine, which can bring a moribund or kill a person in good health. "
It should be recalled that strychnine is a drug used by athletes during much of the twentieth century. The lethality of the novelist Agata Christie also use the substance to the occasion when commenting on a crime in his novels.
Thus, in 1951, the prelate spoke of the abuse of sport as a drug. Today, the word is always associated drugs in sport, but not for the same reason…
Image: The runner Dorando Pietri, upon arrival at the 1908 Olympic marathon. During the trial, some observers note that consumes Pietri pellets atropine and strychnine. Égaré and vacillating, Pietri made his entry into the stadium in the first position. The stunned crowd saw the rider to fall. His body was taken to convulsions. We help to get up and painfully he collapses at the start / finish line. For long hours, it will be between life and death. He was disqualified for the assistance he has obtained in the stadium. The arrival of the Italian rider is the highlight of the Olympic marathon, few remember the victory of the American John Hayes.
But long before the digital age, some lament that young people are too often outside to play their favourite sport. Bishop George Leo Pelletier, bishop of Trois-Rivières, spoke against the abuse of sport at the provincial annual congress of the General Association of alumni of the Brothers of Christian Instruction in October 1951.
"I am concerned to see the sport take a large place in the lives of our youth it is becoming a goal instead of a simple average. Children think in one way and lose exclusive taste of the study. I rise not against sports, but against the abuse that in fact. In this area as in all things, we must not exceed the measure. If we are reduced to begging for the education of our young people, the few educational inputs it may contain, ignoring increasingly solid education and religious formation, it is a disqualification. Sport is a bit like strychnine, which can bring a moribund or kill a person in good health. "
It should be recalled that strychnine is a drug used by athletes during much of the twentieth century. The lethality of the novelist Agata Christie also use the substance to the occasion when commenting on a crime in his novels.
Thus, in 1951, the prelate spoke of the abuse of sport as a drug. Today, the word is always associated drugs in sport, but not for the same reason…
Image: The runner Dorando Pietri, upon arrival at the 1908 Olympic marathon. During the trial, some observers note that consumes Pietri pellets atropine and strychnine. Égaré and vacillating, Pietri made his entry into the stadium in the first position. The stunned crowd saw the rider to fall. His body was taken to convulsions. We help to get up and painfully he collapses at the start / finish line. For long hours, it will be between life and death. He was disqualified for the assistance he has obtained in the stadium. The arrival of the Italian rider is the highlight of the Olympic marathon, few remember the victory of the American John Hayes.
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