For years, people have been debating whether cheerleading is a sport or not. On the year 2016, the debate has come to an end when The International Olympic Committee declared to be cheerleading as an official sport. Cheerleading is a well-known sport around the world especially in the Philippines.
The word “sport” has no definite meaning. The women’s sports foundation narrowed down some qualifications to determine if it is a sport or not. Cheerleading has met all of the qualifications that are listed. There are a lot of reasons on why cheerleading is a sport. The first one is physical execution; it executes different kind of elements like dancing, stunting, tossing, tumbling, and etc. All of these elements require strength, balance, timing,