Sports Council Newsletter #10

NLCS JEJU SPORTS COUNCIL

January 27, 2021

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Recruitment of New Sports Council Members!

We’d love you to join us. The Sports Council have sent out an email to recruit new members. If you are interested please fill out this application form.

If you want more information about how the Sports Council operates please check this video.

Contacts Editor-in-chief: Jason Jongsuh Park Chair: Alex Yoonjae Chung

If you do have any questions feel free to ask any chair member as shown in the list below.

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Facility Changes Sports Department Facility Changes The swimming pool recently had to go under refurbishment as some of the tiles on the pool floors were starting to lift off. Now, the swimming pool is safe, open and ready to go!

Safety cladding has been added around the perimeter of the Astro field. Indeed, this is a great safety improvement from the boulders that were previously there. It’s also NLCS Jeju blue!

The equipment in the Sports Hall Fitness Suite has been serviced to ensure the safety of those who are exercising.

New Spin Studio For Next Year!

Our Sports Department has shared with us a great idea of transferring the storage room next to the fitness suite into a spin studio.

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Hopefully, the storage room completely will be completely transformed into a splendid looking spin studio by the start of next school year.

When the spin studio is up and running, the sports department will offer open sessions to both students and staff members from CCA Block 1 next year! * A spin studio is a gym with many indoor cycling machines aligned together.

Will the Tokyo Olympics continue as planned? Recent polls suggest it won’t.

Nick Oh The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics in Tokyo was once anticipated to be a vibrant international event with tens of thousands of tourists and athletes coming into Japan. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has cast uncertainty on what the Tokyo Olympics will look like - if it is going to be ever held in the first place.

Results from polls conducted by the Japanese news agency Kyodo and the Tokyo Broadcasting System showed that almost 80% of people in Japan who were surveyed said that the Tokyo Olympics should be cancelled or postponed.

These results from the two polls are bad news for the International Olympic Committee and other Japanese organizers as they have been claiming the postponed Olympics will take place as planned during July~August 2021. Indeed, the poll results are likely to ibring great difficulty to the organizers in deciding the fate of the Tokyo Olympics.

Last year was the first time in history that the Olympics have been postponed to a later date. If the Tokyo Olympics are cancelled, it will be the fourth time since 1896 that a modern Olympic Games has been cancelled (previous Olympic games were cancelled due to WW1 and WW2).

As of now, Japanese organizers are testing various COVID-19 prevention measures across many venues. They have also announced that it will be mandatory for all athletes, coaches, judges, and officials to have a negative COVID test result prior to entering the venues.

Japan has already spent over USD 15 billion to hold the Olympics (building, planning, staffing and more) and costs are only projected to rise if they postpone the Olympics once again.

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Many sports fans around the world are hoping that they will be able to see the Olympics being held. It will certainly be a nice break from the difficulties many are currently experiencing.

Dance: the intersection of art and sports Marty Dillon Art and sport have often been placed at opposites to each other - where sport has often been classified as masculine and athletic, whereas art has been seen as more feminine and expressive. Many will identify strongly with one over the other, or see them as antitheses of each other. The primary overlap between art and sports comes through dance, where art and sport combine into a physically expressive discipline.

Dance is a universal part of society and art, with thousands of societies across different periods and countries having dance(s) as part of their culture and religion. Dance has strong roots in 4

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European, Asian, African, Polynesian, and American cultures. Some of the earliest recorded structured dances have been identified as part of religious ceremonies, relating to ancient myths, as a form of storytelling (a form of dance prominent in ancient Egypt). The oldest proof of existence of dance comes from Indian cave wall paintings from 9000 years ago, which depicted various scenes of human life, including dancing.

Ancient dances have evolved and sustained relevance in modern times, and contemporary dances and dancing traditions have since emerged and developed. Dance has become one of the most common forms of sports for younger children, and is still one of the more popular sports for older kids and adults. Professional dance is one of the most demanding physical sports, which has a high rate of injury and physical strain. Ballet requires almost as much training as many athletes would spend for the olympics, and modern dance is regarded as one of the most difficult sports.

Despite this, many will regard dance as an art more than a sport, and disregard the physical toll of dance. Why is this?

Dance is an art form, artistic expression is at the core of many dances and is rooted in culture and religion. In western culture especially, sports have been masculinized and arts have been feminized, adding onto the divide of arts and sports. Furthermore, dance is especially popular among women, which has contributed to its reputation of being a feminine art, rather than a sport, despite the physical capacity and training needed for it.

While dance has become more accessible to those of all genders and economic classes through its popularization and evolution, it still remains to be inaccurately viewed. Many boys are often 5

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turned away from dance due to its more feminine connotations, limiting many potential athletes.

Young women are often degraded as athletes due to being dancers, and the view that dance is not a sport. As dance is seen more of an art than a sport, there is often less regulation, which contributes to the high rate of injuries, many of which cause dancers to be forced to retire early.

The misunderstanding of dance as not a sport has dangerous consequences that have punished dancers, which is an issue that many understand needs to be solved.

A growing view that can help with this issue is to classify all sports as an art. But more than this must be the recognition of dance not only as an art, but truly as a sport. Doing this will help increase regulations to keep dancers safe as well as making it more accessible for more people.

We must work to ensure that dance is not seen as only an art, or halfway between art and sport, but truly as both.

If you want to know more about how dance is done in our school, please contact dance@nlcsjeju.kr

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