Should Sport Be Non-Competitive In Schools?
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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When You Cut, There's the Losing Crowd
When you cut there's the losing crowd. You basically cut them up. This is straight away with no chance of a cut. And so when you do that at the age of eight, I mean, you may as well toss a coin. So competition is really important. But if you act on competition to allocate your budget, maybe your budget is time, people, facilities and money. If it's knockout, some teams would get more games than others at the Age of 8 or 9. Some kids are going to get to play 120 minutes a weekend. Other kids are going To play 20. The problem with it is, is like, OK, Tiger did become. He went from the
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