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I refuse to wrap my mind around “professional” video gamer.
So guess you can't fathom professional chess players, professional race car drivers, professional footballers, professional boxers, or professional athletes of any sort for that matter?
They're all games.
Chess is an athletic competition?
It was in the Olympics
I've commented elsewhere on the death of modern Olympics.
you realise the olympics used to include poetry and art, right?
“Used to”. And they also included architecture, chess, and dueling alongside other non-sport activities. They were dropped fairly early on.