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The invention of the sports week accompanied the transformation of physical exercise as much as that of social time. During industrialization and urbanization, traditional games—often violent and linked to the religious calendar—disappeared, as did the porous time of work. Sports developed to compensate for the intense and grueling workload. The football week was initially confined to Saturdays and Sundays, while horse racing and cycling events were held over the weekend. Weekly sport time is as much a time for oneself as it is a place of control and edification for teachers, the clergy, the army, employers, and totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. The technological and social transformations in the second half of the twentieth century have resulted in the expansion of the sports week, in which the participation of women and seniors is increasing. Sport is part of the partially porous time of the postmodern week.