The factors of being a sport are; having athletic ability, competitions, championships. Right now, cheerleading is three for three. Cheerleading contains stunting and tumbling which fall under athletic ability. Also, there are thousands of cheerleading competitions held each year, and championships. Just last year the International Olympic committee agreed with cheerleaders everywhere that cheerleading is a sport. Even with the Olympic committee saying cheerleading is a sport, people are still not convinced that cheerleading is active enough to be considered a sport. As you can see cheerleading meets all the athletic specifications to be sport. So why are people saying that cheerleading is not a sport? In the definition of “sport” it says