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Sports a 鈥榖ridge鈥 too far for card lovers?
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Bridge enthusiasts began a court challenge in London yesterday against a decision by funding body Sport England to exclude the card game from a list of recognized sports that includes darts, model aircraft flying, and hot air ballooning.
At stake for bridge lovers is a potential source of funding as well as new opportunities to play, while for Sport England the risk if bridge succeeds is that the likes of chess, Scrabble and other 鈥渕ind sports鈥 will also want recognition and money.
The English Bridge Union, which has 55,000 members, argues that Sport England, a public body that aims to help get the nation fitter, used too narrow a definition of sport when it rejected an application in 2014 to recognize bridge as one. That definition, taken from a Council of Europe charter on sport, identifies 鈥減hysical activity鈥 as its central element.
鈥淧hysical activity is a very uncertain yardstick,鈥 lawyer Richard Clayton, representing the EBU, told the High Court, drawing a comparison between bridge and darts.
Leaving aside the lifting of pints of beer, he suggested, the amount of physical activity involved in playing darts was arguably not much greater than that involved in shuffling and dealing cards to play bridge.
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