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[โ€“] b000urns@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

I've always considered the pursuit of sport to be something for the elite, much like art, fashion, design, writing etc. You need significant financial support for a long time to really make it fields such as that. Now that may be a generalisation, but it's mostly true I think

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