“A lovely moment in 11yo’s table-tennis. He’d battled down from 10-2 down to 10-7 in the deciding set. He missed his shot and went to shake his opponent’s hand, but opponent said ‘no, that was a let’. Really sporting, and he went on to win the set 11-9.
I told him I’d noticed that afterwards and thought highly of his honesty. He smiled and said ‘well, of course — it was the right thing to do.’ Absolutely made my day.”
We hear a lot about kindness in sports and this example shared by Colin Beveridge over on Mastodon is another wonderful example.
What kind examples of sporting behaviour have you noticed recently?
Check out examples of kindness from across other areas of life:
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