What if you think what he does isn’t a sport?
linear algebra is hard, but nobody is awarding olympic medals for it.
At least linear algebra makes sense and has real world value.
My hand is up. Figure Skating is not a "sport."
Hunting, fishing, trapping, etc are sports, the rest are just games.
Sportsmen = hunting and fishing.
Gamesters = golf, football, baseball,..
Of course it's a sport. Whenever you see some flamboyantly dressed male ice skater, you say "Hey sport, you skate pretty good."
I can’t believe that I’m about to defend figure skating; but, a debate without all the facts is useless.
Whether or not figure skating is a “sport”, is just semantics. (It would help a lot, if they stopped handing out bouquets of flowers to the skaters — especially the male skaters!)
Figure skating requires a lot of skill and athleticism. Also, at the competitive level, it comes with a high risk of injury. Furthermore, many people (not me) are willing to pay to see it. Professional figure skating is a big industry.
Figure skating and gymnastics should not be in the Olympics. They're only there for the television money.
They are not sports. They are highly athletic, granted, but they aren't sports. They cannot be objectively measured. They are art. That's like putting ballet in to see who can spin fastest, or putting Horowitz and Rubinstein in competition to see who can play the octaves faster in the Tchaikovsky concerto finale.