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Podcast: Physical Activity Researcher
Episode: /Highlights/ Sport and The Good Life – Dr Emily Ryall (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series
Description: This is the first part of our discussions with Dr Emily Ryall where we explore foundational questions about meaning of sport in human life. Sport is clearly trivial: we cannot survive without food and shelter, but we can easily survive without sport. Why, then, are so many people across the globe passionately involved in sport? And if sport is trivial, should we take it seriously, and how seriously? What happens if we take sport too seriously?
And finally, we delve to critiques of elite sport and the role of sport/exercise technology in possibly distorting our relationship...