Despite what you hear on TV, Golf and NASCAR are not sports.
Sure, they take skill, they compete against one another, but they aren’t sports.
So what is a sport?
My definition of a sport is an athletic contest in which one team (even consisting of 1 player) tries to score, and at the same time another team is trying to defend the act of scoring. Without the aspect of defense, the activity is either a game or an athletic competition. The Olympics, by in large, are athletic competitions.
Golf, Bowling, NASCAR Racing and Billiards all lack the aspect of defenders preventing scoring. Golf, bowling and billiards are games of skill. NASCAR racing is a game of skill with athletic and technological aspects playing a vital role.
Horse racing is more of an athletic competition of the horses.
Without the aspect of “playing defense”, an athletic competition can not be a sport.
THAT, my friends, is the difference.
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