Sustainable development and its effect on the sports community

The research problem included that many officials and administrators view the reality of sports in Iraqi society as a means of participating in competitions and obtaining prizes or high ranks without considering its societal importance and its effective role in developing the individual athlete from the moral, health, social and educational aspects, which prompted the researcher to develop An important perception among those responsible for sustainable development and its impact on the sports community. The study also aimed to identify the impact of sustainable development on the individual athlete in the various games that are practiced, since the athlete is part of the community that practices sports. The researcher followed the descriptive approach as it is appropriate to the nature of the problem. As for the research population and sample, they are athletes from Wasit clubs in various sporting events, and the tool used to collect data that the researcher used is the interview, as its nature is appropriate to the research problem in terms of the availability of information through which the respondent answers the questions directed to him. Accordingly, the current study relied on the free interview guide as one of the most important methodological methods used in scientific research with a group of officials and employees of sports institutions and considered them as a deliberate sample. After conducting these interviews, a questionnaire was prepared specifically for the subject of the study and distributed to the research community, which was deliberately identified. As for the research sample, it was chosen in a systematic random way. The research sample constituted (23.21%) of the original research community. After obtaining the results, the researcher used the statistical bag for the purpose of obtaining statistical results and then putting them in tables and discussing them in an accurate scientific manner. Through discussing the results, the researcher concluded that sustainable development has a clear impact in developing social relations between athletes. Sustainable development was also achieved by giving priority to talented athletes who are distinguished from their peers, as the researcher recommends. By activating the role of sustainable development in all sports facilities, as well as changing society's view of sustainable development by providing the opportunity to spread sports culture. The importance of the research lies in identifying the impact of sustainable development on the sports community.