The Meaning of Sport

Carl Lewis wrote about it later on, in his autobiography Inside Track

Sport is not only – perhaps not at all – an examination of how good you are at running, jumping, controlling a ball. It is also a matter of who defers to whom. Sport is the most intensely physical thing that humans do, or do in public, anyway. And yet the tales we tell are not of bodies but of hearts and minds and souls.

Perhaps sport matters because it doesn’t matter: