http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/1360 A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:10:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/1360#comment-610 Trotski Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/wordpress/archives/1362#comment-610 Various forms of artistic expression have always been in the Olympic Games. It isn't *just* a sport venue. Over time, their number has decreased as sports have increased. It takes a long time for the competition lineup to change. The host country also has the right to accomodate less or even more of them. Even landscape painting was a competition, IIRC. Art is supposed to give the whole event some class.<br /><br />These days, acceptable artforms have to involve a good measure of physical exertion and control. They seem to sit in a rather gray area between sport and art. You can pick them out quite easily since (like painting and whatnot) their scoring requires the opinon of a panel of judges. Personally, I have a hard time categorising a judged competition as a sport. A sport's final score should not require an opinion to be its basis.<br /><br />Anyway, my definition of a sport does not matter at the Oympics -- it was never intended to showcase such a narrow class of competition.
These days, acceptable artforms have to involve a good measure of physical exertion and control. They seem to sit in a rather gray area between sport and art. You can pick them out quite easily since (like painting and whatnot) their scoring requires the opinon of a panel of judges. Personally, I have a hard time categorising a judged competition as a sport. A sport's final score should not require an opinion to be its basis.

Anyway, my definition of a sport does not matter at the Oympics — it was never intended to showcase such a narrow class of competition.]]>