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Originally Posted by KC911
That has some merit, but for things that can be quantified, today's athletes are bigger, taller, faster, stronger .... and better .... on both sides of the ball.
In EVERY sport ...
.....and they excel at the age when they used to sit on the bench and they do it far longer too  . |
Those are NOT a sports. They are just games played with a ball. I played the same games as a kid and we had fun.
A sport is something like track and field, performance against a stop watch, or jumping higher or further. Mountain climbing, human ability against a mountain. Racing is a sport, drive a little fast and brake a just a little harder than the competition.
A "game" of chess is more of a sport than any basketball, football, hockey, baseball game. With chess, there is no advantage of youth, strength, or size or better equipment. Just skill, and luck is just not an factor.