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You can’t eat sports, live in sports, or treat your medical problems with sports
This is true…but there a things beyond survival necessities that contribute to in dividual as well as comminity health. We need social engagement…and that done with some health benefits thrown in there too is also wonderful.
Sport event participate to nation building as a shared cultural moment.
But there are probably stronger variable.
Education is quite important and sport learned at school can be seen as an education of bodies.
Maradona, Messi.
I actually believe sports are more important than people realize…can it make a nation on its own? Of course not. It is a wonderful way to compete in a non threatening way (usually). I enjoy sports.