Religion in Sports

Religion has been on a major decline in sports and sport industries along with society are doing their best to take religion itself out of the game. People have begin to wonder, is there even a place for religion in todays sporting world? My answer is simply yes. Sports themselves started with religion as the first athletic event is thought to be derived from a race to the alter of Zeus. Based on this fact how can you find it necessary or even appropriate to take religion out of sports. Many athletes play a sport because they filled called to do so or because they are trying to bring glory to God. By taking religion out of the games you are removing an athletes motivation for playing and by removing their movitation you are also removing their passion and enthusiasm for the game. If you remove indivuals athletes love for playing the game it will inevitbly ruin the game itself. Since the game is comprised of individual athletes it will be diminished one by one as each athlete loses its desire to play. Taking religion out of sports would be inexcusable and it should not be permitted by those who are in power. I feel as if religion should not be forced upon athletes however it should not be removed from the game.