In real sense sports are merely a recreation programmes for society and its individuals, it is mode of social development.
Some would claim that the close relationship and growing interdependence between sport and development is in fact a form of symbiosis.
While this relationship may be symbiotic it is not doubt dialectical in the sense that numerous interactions and reciprocal influences may be observed between the development of sport and economic and sociocultural development.
As an illustration of such interaction, experiments have been carried out in some industrialized countries seeking to ink the promotion of sport to the development of rural areas.
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Experience shows that by promoting physical and sporting activities in the countryside, often in tendem with other cultural, social or touristic activities, the rural environment may once again become a setting of hospitality.
In this way, the practice of physical and sporting activities promotes the development of open-air sites, the building solid maintenance of neighbourhood, municipal or district facilities, the provision of services, and the creation of part-time and full-time jobs.