Why a Focus on Sporting Tests Would Reveal an Alternate Story and Raise Ethical Questions about Agon: A Commentary

• Authors: R. Scott Kretchmar
• Languages of publication: EN

Keywords

agon; test; contest; play; virtue

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 82
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 53-58

Contributors

author

R. Scott Kretchmar

• Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/pcssr-2019-0012