The fact is that sports and athletics are a platform designed to display the benevolence of aristocrats in order to solidify their positions. The concepts of athletics and sport are not distinct. The reason we choose the Greek model over the Roman model is mainly due to admiration of their work and therefore appropriation of their culture is rapid, as people tend to take what is more interesting in a particular culture. We have witnessed this along the way in how sporting similarities have been found scattered throughout, such as in wrestling as depicted in the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is still practiced some 3,800 years later around the world ( Sukava: June 4). We do not appropriate things that do not resonate with our culture or that will not have broader positive social and political ramifications for that culture (Sukava: June 24). Therefore, the concept of spectacle versus sport, artist versus athlete, is not distinct; we have many anomalies in our world today that bear witness to this. Cirque Du Soleil artists are athletes. they hit the boxes we typically think of as athletics, but their field is considered spectacle, an act to entertain. But then again, would it also be inappropriate to call it a sport? Is this the comfort we find in saying that baseball, football and hockey are obvious sports and shows are clearly not sports but what excludes the Circus? It can be affirmed that it is a large-scale competition which does not have immediate reciprocity, center of excellence and spectacle, respectively centered on the athletes and on the public (Sukava: June 24). While I agree with Reid's overall view on the world, I feel like the nuances of the complex relationship that exists between sport and