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Originally Posted by angry pancake
3) The outcome of the event cannot be predetermined.
So in a situation involving something like the 1919 Chicago White Sox where one team is trying to lose and the other is trying to win, where does that leave us? The Reds didn't know the outcome was predetermined. Many of the White Sox didn't know it either. BUt begrudgingly most people acknowledge baseball as a sport.
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Baseball is still a sport, even if that game/series was fixed, as that was an abaration to the game; it wasn't how the game is played. Any sport can be fixed, and when that happens that particular event may not have been a sport, but the sport as a whole still is.
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So how can an unfixed boxing match, like Olympic boxing, be a sport and not a sport depending on the outcome under this definition? If boxer A knocks out Boxer B, it's a sport. If both boxers give their all and demonstrate great skill and neutralize each others strengths, can it be a non sport. Suppose the boxers are just two gigantic fat asses in a super heavyweight match that really don't do much of anything but hug for three rounds before going to the judges?
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Olympic boxing is a bad example, even compared to pro boxing. In olympic boxing the scoring is as simple as whoever lands the most punches wins. That could be handled by computers completely; would it then become a sport if we removed the people counting the punches? Right now a certain amount of judges have to hit the "punch landed" button within a certain amount of time of each other for it to count.