00:08 The importance of playing sports has grown over time. Today I'm going to lay down three points and tell you how they correlate. How did the Olympics start? Does anyone know? People were bored. In the ancient world they didn't have all the necessary luxury items that we have to entertain ourselves. They just went to the empty fields and just started to play something. That's where the Olympics started. That's where sports started. My second point

00:30 is going to be sports is valued as education. Today people play sports as an incentive to get scholarships and get into top universities of the school. It's not necessary for you to be a bookworm or a nerd to be a successful person. If you're a good sportsman, you can be an as successful person in the world, and you can reach the top level. My third point is going to be sport is a big business. You see big sportsmen like David Beckham, Alex Rodriguez, Maria Sharapova. They're driving all the luxurious cars of the

01:00 world. They're driving Ferraris, Lamborghinis. Where do they get the money from? From what they do: sports. It's a big business. It distracts a lot of viewers, it distracts a lot of sponsorships. That's why they get heavily paid. Sports today is a big business. They have a lot of endorsements.