Sporting behaviour

• Sportsmanship


  Playing within the rules and understanding and using sports etiquette, playing fairly in the spirit of the game, showing respect and fair play to opponents and graciousness in both victory and defeat
• Sportsmanship


  • Kicking the ball out when someone is injured in football and the other team giving possession back
  • Helping a rival player up if they are down injured
  • A player calling the ball 'in' at a tennis match, even though the line judge called it 'out', thereby giving the point to their opponent
• Gamesmanship


  Bending the rules and using questionable methods to gain an advantage without breaking them
• Gamesmanship


  • Deliberately falling after being tackled in the penalty area to try to win a penalty in football
  • Distracting an opponent, for example sledging in cricket where the bowler and fielders verbally abuse or intimidate a batsman to put him off
  • Time-wasting to prevent the opposition from trying to score in hockey
• Gamesmanship exists at all levels and in many sports, and many examples are seen in elite sport due to media coverage
• Competitors who are strongly ego-oriented or extrinsically motivated


  • More likely to have a 'win at all costs' attitude, leading to unsporting behaviour
  • Less incentive to cheat if someone is task-oriented or intrinsically motivated
• A player kicks a ball out of play to stop the game when an opponent is injured

  This is sportsmanship, as it shows respect for the opposing team and upholds safety and fairness
• Sporting values


  • People are expected to follow written and unwritten rules to make sport fair
  • People are expected to behave responsibly to ensure respect, fairness and safety
  • Sport promotes social values
• Sporting values


  Values that sport is used to promote in society generally
• Olympic values


  • Excellence
  • Friendship
  • Respect
• Excellence (Olympic value)


  Doing the best you can, in sport and in life. It is about taking part and striving for improvement, not just winning.
• Friendship (Olympic value)


  Using sport to develop tolerance and understanding between all people – performers, spectators and citizens generally.
• Respect (Olympic value)


  Having consideration for oneself, others and the wider environment. It includes respecting the rules of sport and the officials who uphold them.
• Paralympic values


  • Courage
  • Determination
  • Inspiration
  • Equality
• Courage (Paralympic value)


  Someone rising above their circumstances and showing their true worth.
• Determination (Paralympic value)


  Someone pushing themselves to the limit in order to achieve what they set out to do.
• Inspiration (Paralympic value)


  Being a positive role model – someone using their achievements to lead the way for others.
• Equality (Paralympic value)


  Recognising that people have equal worth whatever their differences and taking action to overcome prejudice and discrimination.
• Many sports and sporting events have a set of values that schools and community sports groups use as inspiration to develop their own sets of values
• Young people are encouraged to apply sporting values to all areas of school, work and life – not just to sport
• Values linked to the School Games

  • Honesty
  • Teamwork
  • Respect
  • Self-belief
  • Passion
  • Determination
• Sport requires people to follow written and unwritten rules to make it fair
• Sport expects people to behave responsibly to ensure respect, fairness and safety
• Sport promotes social values
• Doping in sport


  Taking illegal or performance-enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids
• Doping undermines fairness and puts athletes' health at risk
• There are strict measures to tackle doping in sport
• It is the responsibility of every athlete to make sure they are dope-free
• Individuals have to take personal responsibility for every substance that enters their body
• Anti-doping depends on good sportsmanship
• 100% Me


  Being a true athlete where your performance is due to hard work, determination and talent
• 100% Me supports and educates all athletes from beginners to elite performers
• 100% Me is based on five values
• Many of the UK's top athletes support 100% Me and champion clean sport
• Sport requires people to follow written and unwritten rules to make it fair
• Sport expects people to behave responsibly to ensure respect, fairness and safety
• Sport promotes social values
• Deviant behaviour in sport

  Taking illegal drugs, match-fixing and behaving violently in sport
• Deviant behaviours in sport

  • Can have serious consequences
  • Athletes are, perhaps, discouraged from acting in a deviant way
• Deviant behaviour can have serious consequences and athletes are, perhaps, discouraged from acting in a deviant way for some of these reasons