“As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long is it alive: a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development.”1 On this occasion here and on his birthday and whenever one is doing philosophy these words of David Hilbert seem particularly appropriate.2 The aesthetics of sport is supposedly the subject. It is not a serious subject if it has no significant problems. There are no significant problems that can sensibly be characterized as problems in the aesthetics of sport.
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Paul Ziff (1974) studied this question.