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Political Correctness

I know it is pc to say sportsperson, but in this case i fell it may be a severe disservice to wikipedia uses. Most people never hear the term, it is just sportsman. We should use sportsman because it is more commonly known and used. Political correctness in this case just causes confusion and a misunderstanding. We do not call it sportspersonship do we? no... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.106.22.210 (talk) 18:35, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion request

Perhaps some information on the ACTN3 Genotype and the idea of the "athletic gene"

All-around Athlete

It would be wise to keep to exceptional examples of such athletes. In particular, there is no point in naming athletes who don't even have a wikipedia entry, unless this is to become a list of all-around athletes. Because of that I have (more than once) removed alleged all-around athletes that did not fulfil these requirements. --rimshotstalk 09:10, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the UK

Here, in the UK, the word athlete means 'a person who competes in athletics and other sports' (though the definition 'a person who is good at sports' is also noted). I think it would be a good idea to make the athlete page into a disambiguation page that links both to here, and the page on athletics (track and field).--Jcvamp 03:21, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Athlete should go straight to the athlete disambiguation page, because it often refers to someone who participates in athletics rather than just a sportsperson generally. Alex9788 20:16, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've changed the redirect on athlete, and also on the mis-spelling athelete. Alex9788 20:23, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not according to Talk:List of words having different meanings in British and American English#Athlete. Do you have another source? I'm changing it back. Ewlyahoocom 05:57, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Athletics is on the list, and athlete has exactly the same principle. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I presume you used the find on page tool and didn't actually look through the list to see athletics. The word athlete has two commonly used meanings, hence it is ambiguous and athlete should go straight to the disambiguation page. Alex9788 09:06, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Talk:Athlete. Alex9788 08:51, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ewlyahoocom appears to have changed his mind and has changed the redirect. Thanks, Alex9788 09:07, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As 'athlete' has a single major meaning, which this page aspires to describe, that should be the page name, with a separate disambiguation page for the other minor related terms, such as the band. 'Athlete' is much more common than the ugly and rare 'sportsperson' including in the UK (I speak as a Brit who defends British English against marginalisation.) As a start to improving this page, I've removed the inaccurate reference to AmE, and - in a first for this page - included a reference to back it up. Here it is in full (note that order of meanings implies importance):

Collins English Dictionary (Millennium Ed) - a British publication
athlete (1) a person trained to compete in sports or exercises involving physical strength, speed or endurance. (2) a person who has a natural aptitude for physical activities. (3) Chiefly Brit. a competitor in track and field events.

Earthlyreason (talk) 10:10, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion of definition

When I think of a sportsperson, i think not only of the participants but those that are "sports figures." A sports figure would be a coach, or owner, or perhaps even a mascot (like the San Diego Chicken) although that one i'm VERY IFFY about. Would that be acceptable to add? Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  05:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

definition - sportsperson or sports player?

isn t the UK equivalent of the American 'athlete' in fact 'sports player' and not sportsperson? don t sportspeople include coaches, officials, etc.?

Propose namechange to "Athlete"

Earthlyreason's Collins Dictionary citation and comments provide clarity as to the British usage of the word "Athlete" to generally mean a sports competitor. SillyFolkBoy said he would support changing this page's name to "Athlete" on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation. I believe changing this page to "Athlete" will clear up ambiguity like the comments here about sportsperson(s) being coaches, owners, officials, mascots, etc. TommyKirchhoff (talk) 14:32, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I concur, I was astonished to punch in the perfectly servicable English word “athlete” only to find a disambiguation page linking to “athlete (sports)”, which itself redirected to the absurdly pretentious neologism “sportsperson.” This silly state of affairs is apparently the result of a move from Athlete to here in 2007 over purported British/American English confusion. 98.155.130.227 (talk) 07:41, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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