sport of them all. I'd still rather sit on the couch to watch a football game than a XC meet, but those runners are better at their sport than our football players are at theirs. When is the last time you ran a 4:50 mile? How about 5 of those straight, without stopping?
We have elite teams that are challenging for national titles and produce Olympians, and you want to say that games qualify as sports when pure athletics do not?