Sportsmanship (or sometimessportspersonship) is an aspiration or ethos that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, with proper consideration forfairness, ethics, respect, and a sense offellowship with ones competitors. A sore loser refers to one who does not take defeat well, whereas a good sport means being a good winner as well as being a good loser.[1][2] Sportsmanship can be conceptualized as an enduring and relatively stable characteristic or disposition such that individuals differ in the way they are generally expected to behave in sport situations. In general, sportsmanship refers to virtues such as fairness, self-control, courage, and persistence,[3] and has been associated with interpersonal concepts of treating others and being treated fairly, maintaining self-control if dealing with others, and respect for both authority and opponents. Sportsmanship is also looked at as being the way one reacts to a sport/game/player. A competitor who exhibits poor sportsmanship after losing a game or contest is often called a sore loser (those who show poor sportsmanship after winning are typically called bad champs). Sore loser behavior includes blaming others for the loss, not accepting responsibility for personal actions that contributed to the defeat, reacting to the loss in an immature or improper fashion, making excuses for the defeat, and citing unfavorable conditions or other petty issues as reasons for the defeat.[4][5] A bad winner acts in a shallow fashion after his or her victory, such as by gloating about his or her win, rubbing the win in the face(s) of the opponent(s), and lowering the opponent(s)s self-esteem by constantly reminding the opponent(s) of poor performance in comparison (even if the opponent(s) competed well).
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