Nietzsche’s Meditation on the Contest and Its Revelation to Sport

In Nietzsche's view, the contest in ancient Greece is in effect a healthy channel for human nature, which is the soul of its culture.Contest, as an integrity of Dionysian energy and Apollinian form, is full of passion and having measure and rule as well.It is such integrity that explains the tension and balance of all areas in Greek life.For Nietzsche, the opposition and confusion of values in modern society, the struggle and contradiction in modern man, must be under control and make it in harmony, which is in need of our thinking of the contest in ancient Greece.In my opinion, Nietzsche's conception of contest has two revelations to sport:first, the sport should be understood as a cultivation of“integrated man”on the body-centered basis, second, a contest spirit and awareness of rule is no absence in sport.