Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Sport is generally recognised as activities which are based in physicalathleticism or physical dexterity, with the largest major competitions such as the Olympic Games admitting only sports meeting this definition,[3] and other organisations such as the Council of Europeusing definitions precluding activities without a physical element from classification as sports.[2] However, a number of competitive, but non-physical, activities claim recognition as mind sports. The International Olympic Committee (through ARISF) recognises both chess and bridge as bona fide sports, andSportAccord, the international sports federation association, recognises five non-physical sports,[4][5] although limits the amount of mind games which canImage result for sports photos be admitted as sports.[1]