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What is sport?
Sports are types of physical activities and games of a competitive nature, from which prizes are awarded through achievement. Modern sports have the purpose of maintaining and improving physical skills and abilities, cultivating social skills, exercising health, bringing joy and excitement to participants (often called athletes, regardless of age, gender, level, class) and bringing entertainment to viewers.
Usually a competition or game takes place between two sides, each trying to surpass the other. Some sports allow ties; Some other sports apply methods to break the balance, to ensure that one side wins and the other loses. Many such competitive matches can be arranged into a tournament to choose a champion. Many sports leagues organize regular sports seasons to choose a champion, sometimes determined by one or more play-offs. Today there are hundreds of organized sports, from those contested between individuals, to those in which many people participate at the same time.
Sports are regulated by a system of rules or customs that ensure fairness and allow results to be accurately evaluated. Victory can be decided by actions such as scoring goals or crossing the finish line first. Results can also be determined by judges, who score sports performance based on objective or subjective assessments.
Competition achievements are often recorded and can be widely published in sports news. Sports are also a place where non-competitive people seek entertainment as spectator sports attract large numbers of participants to sports venues, and a larger number through broadcasting channels. wave. Sports betting is also highly regulated, and is sometimes the center of the sport.
Sports competition
There are opposing views on the need for a competitive element in the definition of sport, as all professional sports are competitive, while governing bodies require competition. is a prerequisite for recognition by the IOC or SportAccord.
Other agencies advocate expanding the definition of sport to include all physical activities. For example, the European Commission includes all types of physical exercise, including activities for recreational purposes only.
In competitions, participants are scored or ranked according to their "results" and are often divided into matched competition groups. Evaluation of results can be objective or subjective. For example, in a race, the time to complete the race is an objective measure. In gymnastics or diving the results are decided by a panel of judges, and are therefore subjective.
