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When I was at school the general attitude was that those pupils who showed an aptitude for sport were making up for being “hard of thinking”, and that the ability to run/swim/throw something a long way was in some way recompense for an inability to breath with their mouths shut, or operate a pen or pencil with any degree of utility.
This was a state run school with large playing fields (which may now have been sold for “executive housing”).
So I think part of the problem may have been one of peer opinion- I was certainly considered to be insane for cycling everywhere, and going out on the weekends for 6-8 hours on my bike, often returning covered in 70% mud and 30% blood.
Having no direct knowledge of how the ‘strines view sport I cannot draw a direct conclusion, but I suspect the attitude toward athletic ability was less pejorative?