A friend, let us call him Mushy, defines a sport as any activity that cannot be accomplished while smoking or wearing slacks. As a definition, this leaves something to be desired since clearly Synchronised Swimming is not a sport despite being a bit difficult to do while smoking or wearing slacks. Even in the office.
The obvious Third Law of What Constitutes A Sport is that it has a clear result without resorting to subjective judgement. This neatly excludes Synchronised Swimming, Ice Skating, Ballroom Dancing and Ski Jumping so we are onto a winner.
Until now.
News has just reached me of a sport that cannot be practised while smoking and the wearing of slacks is prohibited by its Laws. Moreover, it has a clear winner: everybody.
I cannot decide whether this means Western society has now reached the acme of its achievements, or whether perhaps this is a clear sign that we are in a decadent spiral of decline. Here come the Goths!
In that case, I think it’s pretty fair to say that we’ve both come out of this on top.
I might as well come clean and say that my sole reason for posting this in the first place was so I could tag it with “sports governance” and “lingerie”. And I didn’t even mention Max Mosley.
It was terribly clever, wasn’t it? I think that now’s as good a time as any to declare that those eight years of tertiary education were officially Not Wasted.
I see what you did there
I think you’ll find that all protagonists in the LFL are smokin’.
Mushy’s Laws remain the ultimate arbiters of What’sASportOrNot