Ballroom dancing is about to become an Olympic sport. Torville and Dean flung themselves into the crater of an imaginary volcano in a skated dance of doomed love, to win a gold medal. There is hardly a sphere of human activity that does not have some kind of scheme for working out who is the best. It happens in my own profession. I can remember Steve Davis, the snooker player, a delightful as well as a fascinating man, speaking to me in the press room at the world championships.
Competition is incidental.
Winning isn't everything. In sport, competition is everything. It is entertainment that is incidental. Any sane manager should sack such a player on the spot. Sport is a zero-sum game.