My rule for considering it a sport is: anyone should be able to play it if they have everything needed. It’s impossible to be banned from a sport (banned from tournaments is not the same thing) - if you want to play, you play. If you want to make custom rules just for you and your friends, you make them and then play. Nobody can own the rights to a sport (again, not the same as that sport’s tournament). No company can ever stop others from making money with a specific sport.
If you have any kind of ball you can play soccer. If you have anything that can represent chess pieces, you can play chess. If you have a kart you can have a race…
So can videogames be considered sport? Perhaps some can, but anything that requires access to a specific company’s private servers is out of the question. I’m not even gonna argue that the game should be open source, but at the very least it should have a way for anyone to spin up their own server for it.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The Olympics shouldn’t exist as they are now in the first place.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It should go back to the original 5 or 7 events.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 4 weeks ago
And the naked part?
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Gotta be wearing a kynodesme to be modest.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That should just go without saying. No female athletes, just oiled up twinks and gym frolicking in a field naked for weeks. /S
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And winners from Athens get free dinners for life