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What do you classify as a sport?
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[QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2388093, member: 1764"] IMO, a "sport" should be a competitive, physical endeavour where the winner is determined either by directly scoring the most points, or doing it in the quickest time, and where the competitor's body is the primary driver to success. Where the line gets blurred is with a lot of "sports" that rely solely on the subjective opinion of judges. That includes diving, synchronised swimming, gymnastics, ballroom dancing, surfing, aerial skiing, boxing (without a KO), equestrian, figure skating etc etc. To me, those are "competitions", not sports. It's not to say they're any less fit or talented than those who engage in sports, but I object to "judgement" contests being listed as sport. Similarly, as I stipulated with my definition of sports, the competitor's body has to be the main force behind their competitiveness. That rules out horse racing and motor sport because thats almost entirely due to the training of the animals and the quality of the mechanics behind the scenes. The rider/driver is to a large degree irrelevant, despite the inherent skill required (particularly with motorcycling). [/QUOTE]
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