These days more than the sports the beauty of a person, the hair style , the dressing and the exposing is discussed. You mauy lose the game that is different.
it’s not beauty per se that counts; rather it is the demonstration of a prescribed skill that wins gold in sports. But some times the sports ability has taken a back seat when compared to the personal beauty of a sports person, especially in case of woman.
Yet there does seem to be a correlation between what is generally considered skilful and what is thought beautiful. The US philosopher Paul Ziff, who declared in Antiaesthetics (1984) that beauty does not matter in sport, might have been wrong in arguing that there is no relationship whatsoever between the two.
Falling on the floor, no matter how intentional, is not valued within aesthetic sports because it does not equate with skill, in addition to looking ugly. The difficulty is in judging between poorly executed (ugly) difficult actions and perfectly executed (beautiful) but easier actions. In aesthetic sports, more points are generally awarded to the latter than to the former, but some allowances are made for difficulty level.
In high-board diving for example, competitors will state the difficulty of a dive that they will attempt, with each dive being worth a pre-set number of points (the greater the difficulty, the greater availability of points
When it comes to tennis people come to see the beauty women more rather than the game as such. It is same with the beach ball and some times the swimming the pool also.
Even in non-aesthetic sports, where the victor is the one who achieves a particular objective such as finishing the race first, or getting the ball into the net, there is still some correlation between skill and aesthetic appreciation.
True, each goal in soccer counts the same, but sports fans value skill that leads to a goal higher than an accidental fumble; hence showcases such as ‘goal of the month’.
While skill often correlates with beauty, if the skill is original, it has greater appeal, even where it doesn’t quite achieve the intended goal.
