A Research on the Relationship Between Violence and Fair Play in Sport
Chapter from the book:
Satılmış,
N.
(ed.)
2023.
Sports Paradigms IV.
Synopsis
There are lots of reasons behind violence in sport. We can sort these reasons the following: features of sport, sportmen, referee, sport managers, tribune leaders, coaches, sport fans, and written and visual media. Fair play is the moral creed of sport. Fair play is that sportmen reach the goal without harming their opponents in a pleasant competition environment and also that spectators do likewise. The aim of this study is to analyse the relationship between violence and fair play in sport in 2016, 2017 and 2018. In that study, documentary research method, based upon collecting data from archive, internet and similiar sources, is used.