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In reply to the discussion: Huge car crash mars Nationwide Series race at Daytona [View all]jmowreader
(50,557 posts)A sport is...
A contest with predetermined goals...
That is a test of strength, stamina or dexterity...
And that is played by predetermined rules.
Moving a piano is not a contest and has no predetermined rules.
NASCAR has predetermined goals in three levels - qualifying, the individual races and the whole season. It is a test of strength, stamina and dexterity. It is a team sport. And it has thousands of rules...there are three pages in the rulebook governing the hose between the gas tank and the engine.(And they have to be there because Richard Petty made a fuel line out of three inch fire hose.) By any standard racing is a sport.
Try this on for size: the International Olympic Committee, who is expert in recognizing sport, classifies chess and contract bridge as sports. Certainly racing is as worthy as chess or dressage...or, for that matter, figure skating.