What is a Sport ?

Never thought of darts as being a sport, it's just a pastime to while away the minutes between pints

 

This has been a contentious matter in the courts recently with regard to other 'sports'. Mainly because of charitable status and tax implications. What it came down to in the end was the decision of Sport England (a government body). They decide what is classified as a sport and what isn't.

According to them darts is a sport - and so is Frisbee!!!

Here's the list of sports they recognise:

http://www.sportengland.org/our-wor...al-governing-bodies/sports-that-we-recognise/

The court case was over whether Bridge is considered a sport. The English Bridge Union lost their case as it's up to Sport England to decide.

Sportaccord, which is the international body governing sports, has the World Bridge Federation and the World Chess Federation as members (joined 2000 and the World Darts Federation joined in 2007).

http://www.sportaccord.com/about/history/

Bridge and Chess is also recognised by the International Olympic Committee as a sport although there is no category for them, whereas Darts isn't recognised. They are normally classified as mind sports and there are international tournaments.

This doesn't really answer the question though

 

Rose sports sorry wrong thread
Sports - or mutations - do not always materialise in the form of colour differences. Sometimes a new shoot with a 'different' characteristic will be just as important. For example, most climbing roses, started life a a sport or mutation on a well known parent rose. That is how we have got 'Climbing Iceberg' and 'Climbing Ena Harkness'. Someone was observant enough to realise that the vigorous shoot sent up by the ordinary floribunda rose 'Iceberg', was not mistaken as a 'sucker' but as a very valuable vigorous shoot that enabled it to 'climb'. The shoot was then propagated by the normal process of budding, and we ended up with