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Tue 04 Apr 2003Time to give them a sporting chance
Sport is not for all, here it is for the few. Physical education is being squeezed out of the curriculum as we sit idly by and watch our children becoming unfitter than ever before. It's time to get up off our backsides writes Tom Humphries, Chief Sports Features Writer
It's spring, the time for the traditional climax of school and college sports everywhere. There is a surface healthiness to sport at this level and the amount of media coverage given to certain competitions distorts this further. Mammy in furs presenting the Senior Cup, the hockey girls shiny and smiling, and so on.
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