Concern over the dark psychology behind the obsessive pursuit of feats such as James Cracknell’s Boat Race victory at 46 is a more natural response than wonder at the achievements
There’s a hoary old debate about what constitutes a sport as opposed to a pastime or an activity. Is darts, for example, a sport? Angling? Mountaineering? There are all manner of ways of answering the question that are to do with codification, exertion, competition. But ultimately, particularly for participants, sharp lines of definition probably seem rather arbitrary.
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