I've always viewed wrestling as a true sport, and i've always considered it amongst the toughest to compete in.
Recently, I watched a documentary on ESPN about the IOWA wrestling team, and their training, and a season with them. It was intense. I ran DI, hard mileage, harder workouts. But, the shit that these guys did made me feel bad just sitting and watching. The next thing I know, I'm doing crunches and back exercizes while the show is on. Seriously, these guys made me rethink how hard I really train. I believe it may be the most demanding sport, physically....maybe mentally to handle the workload and the intensity of practice and matches.
Wrestling=Sport.
But really, sports is simply the term assigned to generalize all games and contests. Sports is a similar word to human being. We have man, woman, white, black, different countries, different ages, different ways of life. But we're all human. Just as in "sports", there are games, contests, matches, competitions. There is one on one. There are teams. And there is always baseball, basketball, football, rugby, badmitten, dancing, or whatever anyone else can put under the general catagory of "sport".
Now, what we're really doing isn't defining sports, we're defining our respect for those sports....and rightfully so!