Towards a High Definition of (Olympic) Sport
The paper entertains the idea of sport as a hete-rogenous concept and focuses not on the boundaries of its extension (a paramount consideration in case of the problem of definition understood in the tradition-al way), but rather of its internal structure. I start with Bernard Suits’ definition of sp...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM) |
| Repositorio: | RIUCAM. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ucam.edu:10952/5961 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10952/5961 https://doi.org/10.12800/ccd.v13i38.1068 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Suits Olympic sport Juegos Olímpicos Riada engañosa Definición Tricky triad Definition |
| Sumario: | The paper entertains the idea of sport as a hete-rogenous concept and focuses not on the boundaries of its extension (a paramount consideration in case of the problem of definition understood in the tradition-al way), but rather of its internal structure. I start with Bernard Suits’ definition of sport (offered in his paper The Elements of Sport), which is a plausible attempt to construct a homogenous definition of sport. According to this definition sports create a subset of games. How-ever, in his later paper The Tricky Triad, Suits himself criticized this definition by introducing a new catego-ry of judged sports that are not games, and a fortioricannot meet his former definition. This distinction not only overthrows the original definition, but also reveals a hidden heterogeneity in the domain of sport. I would like to supplement Suits’ critique of his own definition by another objection, which draws the second dividing line in the domain of sport, namely the distinction be-tween kinetic and non-kinetic, mainly performative ac-tivities. These two distinctions taken together allow me to construct a conceptual map of sport (and especially Olympic sport) that I call The Olympic Sport Image (OSI). It encompasses the following fields: athletic games, judged sports, mind sports and art sports. I would like to call the offered theory the “High Definition of Sport” (HDS), since it gives an insight into the structure of sport as a heterogenous domain. To prove the usefulness of this model I am showing its applicability into the history of the programme of the Olympic Games (OG) and I’m comparing it with Suits’ triadic model. |
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