Talking Point: The World of Sport
Created | Updated Aug 24, 2009
Depending on your worldview, for many it's a great time for British sport. Not long after an absorbing Wimbledon tennis championships, the Ashes cricket test match series between England and Australia is warming up very nicely indeed. And the 138th Open Championship golf tournament, one of the four 'majors', held at Turnberry, Scotland, saw Tom Watson come so close to doing the impossible: winning again at the age of 59. In August, the Premiership football season starts (no Ronaldo this year) and increasingly we'll be reading a lot more about the Olympics as 2012 will come round very quickly. It never seems to end, the continual feast of sport! Which is great, isn't it? What do you mean 'no'?
Is sport an uplifting, edifying experience that inspires and thrills the populace? Or is it a major distraction, like TV in general, an 'opiate for the masses'?
Are you a cricket fan? (Don't you just loveTest Match Special?1) Or is cricket a completely mystifying, utterly boring sport?
Do you actually play cricket yourself? Do you play for a local club? Have you any tall tales to tell of your towering sporting prowess (or not, as the case may be)?
Is golf a game for bloated, snobbish, middle-aged corporate execs played out on water-sapping, environmentally suspect courses? Or is it a game infused with a pure, egalitarian Scottish spirit played out on rugged, natural links courses, man and nature in concert with each other?
Do you play golf? Are you a member somewhere? If you don't play, what puts you off about the game?
Are you looking forward to the 2012 Olympic Games in Britain? Will it be good for the soul of the nation?
Are you one of those that come the end of the football season you're sat there marking off the days in your calendar till the new season starts? Or has football lost all interest for you?
Do you think competitive sports are a good thing in schools or do they unfairly marginalise the non-sporty?
What other sports float your boat? Er, canoeing for example? Rugby? Darts? table tennis?
