Sport lifesavers prepare not only
Το οrganise safe traffic and transportation on the streets, the societies realised that they needed a code of road behaviour. Likewise, to ensure that sporting activities should take place in a goodwill spirit, the national and international organisations set up sport rules, but besides this, they also set up rules for how to behave at the championships in a fair and sportsmanship matter, better known as “fair play”. Fair play implies that everyone involved in sports are encouraged to follow these rules to safeguard the smoothness and wellness of training and competition. The International Life Saving Federation, is the world authority of the only humanitarian and most important sport of the world; lifesaving. Lifesaving is the sport that makes lifeguards fit to save lives from drowning. As such, it is easy to understand why the application of fair play rules not only should govern our organisation and our national member-organisations but also the true spirit of our activities. Having in mind that lifesaving competitors prepare not only for winning the glory of a medal but more than that, for saving a person in distress in an emergency, the application of rules that will act as guarantors for that are welcome and necessary. I congratulate the authors of this booklet and the Greek Lifesaving Sports Association for their initiative.
