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I'm not sure I would have such specific lines. There are plenty of subjectively measured sports - diving, half-pipe, gymnastics. But you're probably right in that it's a dumb sport.
Mine are pretty arbitrary - Ice dance, rhythmic gymnastics, dressage... Darts. Not sports for me. I'm sure they need skill and commitment but fall outside my line.
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Opinions vary. I take a fairly narrow view, in which a sport is a contest of physical performance governed by mutually agreed rules between two or more competitors or teams in which the outcome is determined by objectively measurable criteria. Technically, Zwifting meets that definition. You might think the rules are silly, or that it's wide open to cheating and poorly organised to deter or detect such cheating, but that just makes it a dumb sport, not a non-sport.