PHYSICAL EDUCATION (B.A.2ND SEMESTER)
UNIT-I ETHICS AND VALUE IN SPORTS Ethics in sport requires four key virtues: fairness, integrity, responsibility, and respect. All athletes and coaches must follow established rules and guidelines of their respective sport. Sports ethics is also focused on equity in sport which should be an expression of human excellence. It has two dimensions: (a) Institutional: Discrimination based on criteria other than performance must be rejected, rules must be applied uniformly and without resorting to arbitrary decisions; (b) Personal: There is a moral obligation to abide by the rules, in accordance with the principles of fair play. It tries to ensure that sporting excellence must be an expression of human excellence and performance and results should emerge from the deserved and meritorious development of individual talent. The codes of sports ethics documented by the Olympic Committee and other international and national sports bodies, governments, sports federations and associations, spor