A Consideration of the Concept of Fair Play

Wigmore, Sheila; Tuxill, Cei

doi:10.1177/1356336x9500100107

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“…If some behaviour would cause an element of 'unfairness', then the whole construct of the game or contest is in jeopardy. As Wigmore & Tuxill (1995) put it:…”

Section: An Interpretation Of the Athletes' Reasons Within The Framewmentioning

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Moral Reasoning in Sport: Implications for Physical Education

Drewe

1999

Sport, Education and Society

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“…If some behaviour would cause an element of 'unfairness', then the whole construct of the game or contest is in jeopardy. As Wigmore & Tuxill (1995) put it:…”

Section: An Interpretation Of the Athletes' Reasons Within The Framewmentioning

confidence: 98%

Moral Reasoning in Sport: Implications for Physical Education

Drewe

1999

Sport, Education and Society

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“…According to the International Committee of Fair Play’s document Fair Play for All (1992), it is the responsibility of sports governing bodies to determine that athletes are competing against others of similar size, strength, and capacities (in Wigmore, Tuxill, & Hallman, 1995). Yet, it is rare for such determinations to be directly made.…”

Section: The Advantage Thesis “Fair Play” and The Gender Binarymentioning

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Gender Verification and Gender Policies in Elite Sport

Sullivan

2011

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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Sex-segregated sports require governing bodies to clearly and accurately place athletes in two categories, one labeled "men" and the other labeled "women." Sports governing bodies such as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) used sex testing procedures to attempt to verify the sex of athletes competing in women's events. In 2004, the IOC introduced the Stockholm Consensus to regulate the inclusion of, primarily, male-tofemale transsexual athletes, to compete at the Olympic Games. These governing bodies, and others, are dealing with society's basic categorization of humans and thus are entangled in attempts to scientifically and medically define sex. This article will focus on the history and implications of gender-verification testing and gender policy on notions of "fair play" and athlete eligibility.

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“…(Lippe, 1997) In case he was not able to fully control his aggression, however, sport was also a place where industrial man learned to be civilised and virtuous. 4 Its moral rules resulted in ethics that were held to constrain athletes beyond the laws of the game and beyond the field of play, as seen in the ideal of the games ethic, and those of the ideal of 'fair play' (Loland and McNamee, 2000;Mangan, 1986Mangan, , 2000Wigmore & Tuxill, 1995). It is this morality at the heart of the Brazil-Hungary violence moral panic.…”

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Brawling in Berne

Lippe

MacLean

2008

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This article explores the use of national and racial stereotypes in the moral panic surrounding a case of athlete violence at the 1954 football World Cup, focusing on the differences in mediation of this event across three nations with different forms of involvement in or connection with the match. Texts are analysed from Norwegian and English national newspapers, and Swiss newspapers of German origin using Fairclough's (1995a, 1995b, 2003) critical discourse analysis. Each of the three national settings presented four discursive perspectives: degradation of play, the referee, the locker room fight, and national racial stereotypes. The media have long operated as agents and stimulants of moral indignation (Cohen, 1972; Hall et al., 1978). The analysis explores the extent to and ways in which mediation of the violence may be understood through the logic of a moral panic, interpreted as a parallel to Fairclough's societal discourse order. We argue that the discursive framing of the event in each national context reveals common and significant characteristics in the understanding of variations in the national and racial stereotypes invoked. These are specific to the implicit codes associated with national socio-cultural practices, and to reinforce asymmetrical power relations to manage a sense of cultural threat to Western and Northern European cultural codes.

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A Consideration of the Concept of Fair Play

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Moral Reasoning in Sport: Implications for Physical Education

Moral Reasoning in Sport: Implications for Physical Education

Gender Verification and Gender Policies in Elite Sport

Brawling in Berne

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