There is a contention that sport can never be truly fair given that there are always inequalities between competitors: differences in height or metabolism, age, training, skill, etc. including differences that result from social inequalities, such as opportunities to develop abilities as a consequence of class, wealth, location, and so on. If we follow suchContinue reading “On Meaningfulness in Sport Competition”
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Fair Fights and Foul: Competition Categories and Human Rights in Sport
This paper was mostly written in June 2021 and has undergone a number of revisions since then. It has been sent to several journals, but it seems impossible to publish. So it is here. Abstract: If sport is understood as a contest between human individuals on the basis of developed bodily movement involving skill, strength,Continue reading “Fair Fights and Foul: Competition Categories and Human Rights in Sport”
A Slightly Cluttered Desk 