I'm not sure I get it. I don't know much about motorsports (or any sport tbh) but I assume driving differing kinds of motorcycles are different sports the same way shot putting and javelin throwing are different sports.
Just delinianiating between those who run 800m slower than 1:50 and faster 1:50 for example seems really weird and arbitrary. A person who is closest to 1:50 but not faster would win the gold.
It isn't, in motorsports as you said it has to do with the specs of the motorbikes, it is similar to weight classes. But delineating sports the way you propose would be really stupid because you're not delineating via a specific well defined feature but via outcome which doesn't make any sense in terms of sports. It would pretty much just become "who can consistently run the course in exactly 1 minutes and 50 seconds".
It is pretty hard to do for a footrace based on performance, since that can change. Weight classes or something similar would probably work better, since you can't just pretend to be lighter than you are. Having a load of athletes that learn to run 1:50 on the dot would be kind of interesting in some ways though.
Otherwise I guess they could do something similar like horse racing divisions where they add weights and shit depending on horse, jockey size and previous performances, but those are more focused around making betting more lucurative, so I'm not sure how that would mesh with sport competitions.
I'm not sure I get it. I don't know much about motorsports (or any sport tbh) but I assume driving differing kinds of motorcycles are different sports the same way shot putting and javelin throwing are different sports.
Just delinianiating between those who run 800m slower than 1:50 and faster 1:50 for example seems really weird and arbitrary. A person who is closest to 1:50 but not faster would win the gold.
I mean, that's pretty much how it works in motorsports. And people enjoy it.
Huh. I should look it up, probably.
It isn't, in motorsports as you said it has to do with the specs of the motorbikes, it is similar to weight classes. But delineating sports the way you propose would be really stupid because you're not delineating via a specific well defined feature but via outcome which doesn't make any sense in terms of sports. It would pretty much just become "who can consistently run the course in exactly 1 minutes and 50 seconds".
It is pretty hard to do for a footrace based on performance, since that can change. Weight classes or something similar would probably work better, since you can't just pretend to be lighter than you are. Having a load of athletes that learn to run 1:50 on the dot would be kind of interesting in some ways though.
Otherwise I guess they could do something similar like horse racing divisions where they add weights and shit depending on horse, jockey size and previous performances, but those are more focused around making betting more lucurative, so I'm not sure how that would mesh with sport competitions.