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I came back from rugby training feeling disorientated,I continued asking myself the same infuriating question: Why do we play sport?

There are only a few sport oriented emojis on my iPad, here they are: 🎯🏈🏀⚽⚾🎾🎱🏉🎳⛳🚵🚴🏁🏇🎿🏂🏊🏄⛵🚣. These twenty symbols represent twenty of the thirty-thousand sports internationally recognized, and yes you read it correctly THIRTY-THOUSAND, that is a heck of a lot. To give proportions the estimated population of Europe after the bubonic plague was twentyfive-thousand. So why do we play sport and how does it benefit us? I'm going to answer that.

I'm no psychologist but since Neanderthal times humans, or near near humans, have been playing sport. Be it athletics or weightlifting a display of physical capabilities as a boast is prehistoric. No, sport is not a series of movements that just display vigor but is a complex subconscious dealing.

Usain Bolt, Jonah Lomu and Donald Bradman left their legacies in our hearts and we try to replicate their endeavors. On Christmas Day 1913 Allied and Central Power Forces plaed soccer in the Somme no mans land. Sport draws us together and by making us try it creates a species constantly retrying to improve.

Sport isn't just run it is a developmental practice that the Human Race will benefit from.