Comment Re:...news for nerds.. (Score 1) 405
Most every other sport has human interaction as a core element: US football/rugby has people crashing in to each other as a core element, baseball has a pitcher throwing a ball to a batter and the pitcher can directly affect the batters performance, in basketball you could be the best 3 point shooter on an empty court but you've got to get the ball past the defensive players trying to block it.
Except, of course, for track & field, swimming, skiing, ski jumps, kayaking, rowing, running, synchronized swimming, gymnastics, weightlifting, luge, skeleton, boblseigh, and pretty much any other sport which doesn't involve a ball or direct combat. Some you do regardless of other contestants, like weightlifting, some you do alongside others, like running a marathon, but no interaction is allowed. So, whatever you do in practice you should be allowed to repeat in competition.
Sports like football (real or American) and basketball may be good television, but they hardly constitute "most sports".