Changing Times and Changing Time

Abstract

The final chapter uses the example of the games to evaluate the extent to which the regulatory frameworks of sport can create possibilities for change and the promise of transformation as well as reinstating constraints and fixities. This book broadens the scope of analyses of time and temporality by arguing that sport not only reflects existing understanding of temporality but also generates ways of being in time and of conceptualising the processes. In spite of new achievements and records which make sport a constantly changing field there are endurances and entrenched stabilities, but the book has suggested new ways of looking at time and the possibilities of being in time as well as competing against time.