10.7 Professional and amateur performers

Professional and amateur performers differ in which of the following ways?

• Professional performers are paid and have formal training, while amateurs perform mainly for enjoyment and may lack formal training.

• Professional performers perform only in private, while amateurs perform only in public.

• Amateur performers are always more skilled than professionals.

• Professional performers do not require any practice, while amateurs do.

What is one traditional difference between professional and amateur performers?

• Professional performers are paid for their performance, while amateurs are not.

• Professional performers only perform in private, while amateurs perform in public.

• Amateur performers are always more skilled than professionals.

• Professional performers never rehearse, while amateurs do.

What has increased the blurring between professional and amateur status?

• The increased participation of both amateurs and professionals in the same competitions, such as the Olympic Games.

• The reduction of prize money in major tournaments.

• The decline in sports viewership worldwide.

• The introduction of stricter amateur rules in all sports.

Both amateurs and professionals can compete at the Olympic Games.

• True

• False

Being a professional sports performer means:

• Earning a living by participating in sports.

• Playing sports only as a hobby.

• Participating in sports without any training.

• Watching sports as a fan.

The rise in numbers of professional athletes can be attributed to:

• Increased opportunities and commercialization of sports

• Decrease in sports popularity

• Lack of interest in physical activities

• Reduction in sports facilities

Performing a sports activity as a paid occupation, rather than a pastime, is called being a _________.

• professional

• amateur

• spectator

• referee

Engaging in a sports activity, on an unpaid basis, is called being an _________

• amateur

• professional

• referee

• coach

Most people that take part in sport are ________; they do so for the enjoyment of performing. Over the years, sponsorship and media became more involved and now the majority of elite sport is now _________.

• amateur, professional

• professional, amateur

• amateur, amateur

• professional, professional

If you accept money, endorsements, or contracts, you're typically classified as a professional regardless of how you feel about it.

• True

• False