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Some people think that watching sports during leisure time is a wastage of time. Do you agree or disagree?

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In contemporary society,
mutifarious
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multifarious
sports
 programmes are available on television for viewers to enjoy. Some
people
, especially parents, are critical
towards
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 these
sports
 programmes and opine that watching
sports
 deprive young
people
 of studying time. As far as I am concerned, I could not nod to
this
 assertion. Certainly, watching
sports
 do not help you to get flying
colors
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 in examination directly.
Nevertheless
, there are plenty of precious attributes from
sports
 players that
people
 can learn from, and more often than not the actions
from
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 these role models are one thousand times louder than words. From a
sports
 team not only can we see detailed designed game plans to maximize strengths and hide weaknesses but we can
also
 feel the players' glaring eagerness to win as well as mental toughness to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
For instance
, Shaun Livingston, a member of
NBA
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 basketball team Golden States Warriors, encountered a
potential
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 career-ending injury and doctors told him he might not walk
in
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for
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 the rest of his life. He did not give up and persisted to have physical treatment amid unbearable pains. After years of hard work, he can fight with his teammates again on
basketball
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 court again.
Additionally
 , watching
sports
 programmes can help one to communicate better with
sports
 lovers, which are plenty in
the
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society. In today's world, being able to open a topic with strangers, or
people
who
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 we are not particularly familiar with
,
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 is an imperative skill to master in order to attain success. To sum up, those
people
 accusing watching
sports
as
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 time-wasting are simply ignoring the fact that
sports
 players do help to convey positive attitudes, and discussing
sports
 itself is just
an
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 useful way to develop ties with a significant proportion of fellow classmates, colleagues or even customers.
Thus
, it is definitely not a waste of time.
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