Olympic sports versus events?

I think a sport is any athletic event that involves competition. Sure, having some sort of objective scoring system is preferable than a subjective judging system, but that doesn't make those any less of a sport.

How about something like Shooting? That has an objective scoring system — how many shots can you get as close to the center of the target as possible — and while it does involve some degree of physicality — hand-eye coordination and the like — is it really a sport? I would say no, because it really doesn't involve any sort of athleticism.

My 2 pence.

You either win or you don't on either.

Yet you must consider where the Olympics came. Rome! Even there was judges. There simply wasn't the accuracy of today.

In fact the accuracy today didn't exist even in my own lifetime back in the 1960s. It was the judge's that determined the outcome in every sport or event.

There are rules in every event or game which ever you choose. If you go out of bounds a judge must determine it. If you don't do the event correctly, again a judge must determine it

There's no difference. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I have similar view. Objective vs Subjective scoring differentiates them

The sport is the generic name: swimming, diving, gymnastics are all sports.

An event (sports/sporting event, or an Olympic sporting event) is a particular competition under the umbrella of the the sport: a 1000-m solo swim race, a whatever-m relay swim race; a dive competition of a given height; a competition based on a specific part of gymnastics (pommel horse, uneven parallel bars, rings, balance beam, etc.).

Good definitions. I've always thought of events as just being the combination of what, where and when, and not uniquely related to sports. And the sport being the activity, whether judged by referees or judges, or who finishes the finish line first.

A sport is a competition with a set of defined rules to achieve a certain goal. An event is when people come together during a specified time to accomplish that competition. Coming together to play a sport would be creating an event.

I agree and think actually the games need streamlined some. Subjective judgement in some events can be the luck of the draw, depending on what the judge in particular deemed the quality of the performance.

I think he’s half right. I can see how his definition for event works. Sport is more generalized. You can have a sporting event or a sport competition, etc. So an event in this context is a subtype of sport.

Oh there's been controversy in scoring events for decades.

Remember the U.S. vs Russia stuff during the 70's and 80s ?

To this day I suspect it still goes on

I thought the olympics were for amateurs. Yet they let professional players compete. That hardly seems fair.

Semantics IMO. I don’t know why it’s important to differentiate.

That’s a fair assessment on his part

Agree with your husband

i hate 'events' where subjective opinion decides outcomes