Thus the activity of the stadium in a sense constitutes a dialogue between a contemporary culture and the mythic time of its referent.

Each athlete sees him- or herself as the latest participant in the tradition of the greatest from years past. The actions of sports, like analogous performances, often describe a complex interplay of tensions from which the audience can derive implicit or explicit messages from texts of their collective past to apply to their present lives. In their public and physical displays before spectators or an audience, sporting competitions are comparable to religious rituals, to the recitation or singing of stories, and to performances of drama in ancient, traditional, and even modern cultures. Sports involve public performance, carried out by the bodies of participants. Sports are by definition public events, events of the stadium, and thus events which in some ways serve as a mirror for activity in the public sphere of society outside the circumscribed space of the competition.

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