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    Supports→Soccer and boxing qualify as sports because skillful control of the body is essential to achieving the goal of each game.

    A game is a sport only if physical skill is essential to the outcome.

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    Suits draws on his definition of games to provide a definition of sport. He defines sports as ‘games of physical skill’ (Suits, 1988, 2), incorporating the elements of his earlier definition of game and adding further elements that are distinctive to sport as compared to other types of games. In particular, a game becomes a sport by meeting the following criteria: ‘(1) that the game be a game of skill; (2) that the skill be physical; (3) that the game has a wide following; and (4) that the follo

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