Real Winners in Sports Contests

: Pakaslahti Arvi

Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

: 2022

: Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

: SPORT ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY

: SPORT ETHICS PHILOS

: 14

: 1751-1321

: 1751-133X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2022.2036225

: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2022.2036225

The question what ultimately determines the real winner of a sports contest (or whether a sports contest was really a draw) has been little discussed in the philosophy of sport literature. In this article, I discuss in detail and reject three views about what ultimately determines the real winner of a sports contest, which I call 'the Official Result View', 'the Adjudicator View' and 'the Rules View'. I also present a variation of the Rules View, which may be a promising view about what ultimately determines the real winner of a sports contest. I call this view 'the Desert-adjusted Rules View'.