The article keeps referring to "the sport", but never mentions any particular sport. I don't think I've ever seen "the sport" used to refer to sports in general before. Is this a regional language difference, like how Americans would say "go to the hospital" while Brits would say "go to hospital"?
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It's referring to athletics - Wikipedia suggests that in North America it's usually called "track and field"?
Fascinating, the term athletics refers to sports in general in the US. Track and Field is indeed the categorization I am familiar with.
The French use "fais du sport", or "doing sport" when referring to exercising.
Interesting. So are footballers and tennis players not considered ‘athletes’?
They're still called athletes I guess? but for some reason we* nonetheless never (?) use "athletics" to mean "all sports". I'd never really thought about how it's a bit strange until this thread!
* at least here - can't speak definitively for everybody
at least here - can’t speak definitively for everybody
That doesn't sound very American of you...
Well I linked to an article from the Australian national broadcaster, so that tracks :P
Holy shit, this is so new and exciting!
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They need to take the rest of the week off to celebrate this courageous move!
A bit like when swiss air was rebranded into swiss.