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    Sport is a species of game, defined as a game of physical skill with a stable wide following.

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    • 1.A game becomes a sport if: (1) the game is a game of skill, (2) the skill is physical, (3) the game has a wide following, and (4) the following achieves a certain level of stability.
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    • 2.Suits's definition of sport incorporates his earlier definition of game and adds criteria distinctive to sport.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's family resemblance argument entails that 'sport' lacks necessary and sufficient conditions and admits only overlapping similarities.
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    • 2.Suits's four-condition definition imposes an essentialist structure that Wittgenstein's analysis of 'game' itself was designed to undermine.
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    • 3.A definition of sport built on a definition of game inherits the original family resemblance problem rather than resolving it.
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    • 1.Chess, a paradigm case of sport in Olympic and international contexts, involves no meaningful physical skill beyond piece manipulation.
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    • 2.If chess counts as sport institutionally but fails Suits's physical skill criterion, the definition excludes recognized sports by fiat.
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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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