Editorial: Sport and exercise: challenges and perspectives in mental health

persecution and abuse of athletes in the political context, are part of a larger range of problems. The also must be addressed and considered as key elements in healthy sports. Challenges like racism, and violence, associated in many situations with groups of spectators, but also with some athletes, or the risks of habitual passive consumption of sport events, up to addiction patterns, still needs to be covered in future research. It should be finally considered that healthy exercise and sports require the coordinated efforts of all relevant professions, families, friends and caregivers, team doctors, and finally, of course, the athletes themselves who have to learn and respect that any sport activity must respect health and human rights. Legislators and sport officials and their organizations have to implement strong and effective to keep sport ethical and healthy, which has been frequently neglected in an era, where political and other abuse of athletes, and the predominance of financial and publicity interests have become closely associated with many sport fields.