Agree with all the points you made and well stated.
I’d also add that Soccer (apart from iron man marathons and races like the Tour de France ) undoubtedly has the best conditioned athletes in all sports.
Football, baseball - the guys sit on their butts half the game and then there are commercial time outs and endless reviewing of the plays . . . . and on and on.
The Tour De France? You really said that? A sport where winner after winner, Contador, Armstrong, Ullrich have all been tagged as having used performance enhancement drugs?