A brief comment is made about the relation of sport and art before looking at the nature of sport and the aesthetic perception of it. Three aspects of sport- the skilful, the dramatic and the good contest — are then phenomenologically analysed as exemplifying both some central features of sport as well as their possibility for yielding different dimensions of aesthetic experience.
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