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Drivers may not be athletes, but what they do is no game

By Ed Hinton
ESPN.com

Sunday, August 17, 2008

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering, all the others being games. -- Observation attributed to Ernest Hemingway Q. Are race drivers athletes? A. No.* *It doesn't matter, so stop bickering with the stick-and-ball crowd, will you? Both sides will feel a lot better. This is an issue that needs settling once and for all. The argument broke out again in an online reader discussion after a column last week. This was at least the 10,000th time I've encou ...

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