Hi and welcome back to Storytime with Uncle Kevin.

This past week I was reading an article about Britain's newest sports prodigy, a 16-year-old

darts champion called Luke Littler.

Words such as athlete and sports person were sprinkled

liberally throughout the article. And it reminded me of another video I saw recently where

world snooker champion Stephen Henry called the 147 break by fellow world snooker champion,

Ronnie O'Sullivan, in five minutes and eight seconds,

the greatest thing he'd ever seen in any sport.

Now, I have to be honest and say I don't really consider darts and snooker to be sports.

This isn't anything to do with the appearance of the athletes,

because that would be body

shaming for me to say anything like that and I would advise everyone against those kind of

thoughts they don't have any place in modern progressive society but it has to do more with

the skills that are involved so you got me thinking about why are some things sports and other things not.

So today I'll have a look at maybe some contentious sports and give my opinion on what a sport is.

So first of all, what is a sport? So according to various sources, a sport is number number one, a human activity, which requires physical skill and exertion.

Secondly, it has to be governed by a set of competitive rules.

And thirdly, it's undertaken competitively for a win or a result.

So let's look at the first criteria, which is that it has to be a human activity.

So we can then look at things like pigeon racing and greyhound racing and say for sure

that by definition, these things are not sports.

And this is because the activity isn't being performed by a human.

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