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It’s harder to stay sane without sport

The author Hunter S Thompson shot himself in February 2005, four days after writing a note in black marker headed “Football Season Is Over” (he meant American gridiron football): “No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring . . . ”

Now football season is over for everybody. Sports worldwide have stopped for the pandemic. That obviously isn’t the biggest mental-health risk around right now.

The French scholar Émile Durkheim showed in Suicide (1897) — one of the first serious sociological studies of almost anything — that when people experienced a sudden change in circumstances, some took their own lives.

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西蒙•库柏

西蒙•库柏(Simon Kuper)1994年加入英国《金融时报》,在1998年离开FT之前,他撰写一个每日更新的货币专栏。2002年,他作为体育专栏作家重新加入FT,一直至今。如今,他为FT周末版杂志撰写一个话题广泛的专栏。

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