Retirement of a sportsman.

Yes, I agree because sport is a phycial exercise and age is something to do with pyshical and when you do against the nature there will be adverse and deterimental consequences for those who want to go on.it is wise to listen and obey your body's call.

People that take part in sports are typically hard on their bodies and that is the reason that their careers aren't able to go on for an extended period of time. However, those that we see that continue their career for a longer period of time are typically those that haven't had a lot of harm done unto their bodies. That said, I think that it is because of the fact that the career of an athlete is a short career that we see so many former athletes showing up as coaches for their sport.

hi doctordidi retirement in anything has more to do with the health of any one, sports figure or doctor or anyone else. I worked in our local library until I was almost 80 . As long as one is able to play the sport or shelve books or nurse ill patients age does not matter if one is well and can do the work efficiently. But if your health is not good you cannot expect to keep working indefinitely. So many people usually much younger people write us off after we are 65 thinking by then we are old and wobbly and senile. not so at all and its criminal to believe this of people who really have to work to supplement their pitiful social security checks.

I don't agree with you totally. It is the fitness of the sportsman than his age should be the criteria for the sportsman to decide whether he can play or not. If he is fit he can perform if he isn't he can not. Rather than the sportsman volunteering for retirement it is sports which decides to retire them if they don't perform to required level. Take for instance the sportsmen like Sunil Gavaskar, Imran Khan, Courtney Walsh they played up to the age of 40 and performed very well. Why there should be any objection for any body for such players to continue? People may want Tendulkar to continue upto the age of 50 if he continues to perform as he does.

I think every sportsman knows the limit of his or her physical capacity and it is always wise to retire at the peak of your career in sports. Retiring is not the end of life but a new beginning, for one he can put up a school or sports clinic or maybe accept a coaching position that would ensure that a new generation of athletes will continue or follow his foot steps on whatever sport he is engaged in

Yes,I agree with your observation,and I'm sure those sportsmen realize when their bodies tell them it's time to put an end to their career,but for some of them it's very difficult to abandon an activity to which they dedicated most of their lives so far,so I think they try to motivate themselves that they can still do it for some time.I think the moment of retirement is very painful for a sportsman,but it's better to retire in full glory when everyone appreciates them.Nevertheless,retirement is like the end of a life for many sportsmen,so I understand why some of them delay the moment of retirement.