ABSTRACT
However, such value-judgements are, at least implicitly, questioned in intensely competitive modern sport. The opening chapter argued that the source of most contemporary problems in sport arise from the irreducible tension between sport as a social practice (where internal goods are valued) and sport as a social institution (where external goods are valued). Internal goods, arising from the experiences of participation and valuing the sports process as an end in itself, are open to corruption when people value sports for ulterior motives, for particular outcomes.
