[at-l] sports

[delita@mindspring.com (Delita Wright)]

So, uh, you only count *competitive* sports as sports...
Delita


"Billie H. Cleek" wrote:

> Before we define extreme sport, I think it's important to first define
> "sport".  I've often had this conversation with my friends, because I'm
> convinced that most of what we colloquially refer to as sport is not, in
> fact, sport.
>
> A sport, to me, has four components:
> 1) Objective scoring.  This takes out gymnastics, diving (unless we
> weight certain dives, and then have some objective mechanism for
> measuring splash), dance, etc.
>
> 2) Competition.
>
> 3) Athletic skill.  This takes out things like chess, kickball (it's a
> game, not a sport)
>
> 4) A certain degree (how much is yet to be determined) of inherent
> personal risk.
>
> So, hiking, parachuting, snowboarding, skiing are not sports.  They are,
> in my world, extreme athletic endeavors.
>
> Cleek
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