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Andriesen does explore many criteria that most people find are needed in an activity to be a sport such as using a ball or ball-like object, competition, scoring etc., though he never says exactly what he believes make a sport a legitimate sport. He quotes Rodney Fort a professor of sport management about three major parameters that consitute a sport. These are : it must use a "large motor skill", it must have an objective scoring system, and it must use nothing more complicated than a "single machine" such as a baseball bat or vaulting pole, but again he never says that he agrees that these make a sport. He concludes with saying that it is up to everyone to figure out what factors must exist to have a sport and that the overall point is to have fun while participating in any sport.

Under certain circumstances accepted criteria is needed.  Andriesen addresses the Olympics and how they award medals for such sports as kayaking and bobsleding. It some sports it is easier to define a specific set of rules.  In races, like those mentioned, it is easy because the first ones to cross the finish line are classified as the 'winners' point systems are a little bit harder to classify.