Sport / Sports Science

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Iranian Association of Physical Education & Sport Science

Source: the below link
انجمن تربیت بدنی و علوم ورزشی ایران

Hello,
I say to myself that it should be "sports" not "sport". I mean the plural dorm should be used in that title of the website.
Sports science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What's your opinion?

Thank you.

 

[Cagey]

Like you, I would use 'sports science', but you will notice that in the first sentence of the Wiki article you link to, they allow both:

Sports science (also sport science) is a discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise, and how sport and physical activity promote health from cellular to whole body perspectives.
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The Ngram shows both in use in printed material: Google Ngram Viewer

 

[PaulQ]

The website does offer both:

Sports science

(also sport science) is a discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise,

<noun1><noun2> constructions = <noun2> associated with <noun1>
Sport(s)..science........................... science ...associated with..sport(s)

Note "sport" is uncountable but is the same as "sports" (countable)

Crosspost.

 

[rhitagawr]

The Loughborough University website gives sport science: Sport and Exercise Science | Undergraduate study - 2017 | Loughborough University.
I suppose sport science means sport as a concept, sport in general. And sports science could be taken to mean the science of individual sports, e.g. the science of rugby would be different from the science of cricket. I personally wouldn't take it to mean that. I suppose you'd then say sports sciences.
I have a slight preference for sport science, but if you've found enough printed texts to justify sports science then no one can really argue.

 

[Glenfarclas]

The British tend to say sport, as in BBC Sport. Americans generally say sports, as in NBC Sports. It's that simple. (And it's the opposite of how we use math and maths, by the way.)

 

[rhitagawr]

But radio and TV announcers say the sports report. Perhaps because there's more than one sport.