Name: Rendell James J.

Treyes Rating: _______________________

Strand & Grade: STEM 11 Date: _____________________

Winning at all Cost is not Right

In sports, the goal is to win. Plain and simple. Let’s be honest, it is about whether you win or

lose, not just how you play the game. But there is a line that many parents and coaches cross when it

comes to winning. And that line is the difference between winning and winning at all costs.There’s

nothing like standing victorious on the field, court, or track after countless hours of hard work paying

off. When you know you deserve it and you did everything to win it fair. Well, this feeling seems to be

happening less and less these days as many athletes are going too far to win. Many of them are

cheating, losing all of their achievements because they cheated, and are even ruining the sports that so

many of us love playing and watching.

Why Winning is Okay, because besides the fact that winning in youth sports is absolutely fun,

there are some other reasons that winning is really okay it gives players a sense of accomplishment, It

gives them a reward for their hard work, It helps teams see what happens when they play together, It

encourages kids to continue playing sports, and it gives kids motivation to seek higher goals. Why

Winning at all Costs is Not Okay, because when winning becomes more important than the people who

are playing, then the line has been crossed. Winning at all costs hurts players, parents and coaches

because It places more value on results than on effort , It doesn’t care who gets trampled on or left

behind. It worships the score board instead of caring about the development of each player. It puts the

win above the safety of youth players. It often pushes good players to think they have to carry the

team just for a win and thus develops a selfish attitude in them. Winning at all costs may be a win, but

it is never a victory in youth sports. Many athletes are going to far and harming the game we love

watching and playing, but it comes at a price as they are losing all their awards they had earned,

and cheating is becoming more and more common. All of this just to win, but when a couple of
years down the road when their reputation is ruined and all their awards gone, was it really worth

winning at any cost? In the real world, cheaters do prosper, and no one seems to care – I do.

Bending or breaking the rules only create worthless victories. The lamentable fact is that

sometimes cheaters do prosper. Cheating is the new norm in our lives, from sports to taxes.

People who are good at cheating gain prestige and respect for working smarter, not harder, but

that is immoral and a fallacy. Cheaters devalue the efforts of those who came before and those

who will follow them in any particular field. Particularly, it reverberates through sports and my

goal is to be a paragon of good sportsmanship and not cheat. The most important moral

principle in my life to win through hard work and effort without cheating. Running is my sport of

choice and the focus of many things in my life. In modern sports, competition is inevitable as

individuals.

Winning and losing are two ends of sports competition. Everyone identifies with and

appreciates the winning team. Winning is a mark of success and achievement. Certain

unsportsmanship behaviours (e.g. bribery and corruption in sports, sports violence, use of

mercenaries in sports, nutritional abuse and drug use in sports, match fixing and manipulation of

sports results, and fielding of over-age athletes) have crept into modern sports which could be as

a result of the overemphasis on winning, host-to-win, and winning-at-all-cost