Is the shot put and discus really a sport?

So i heard someone make a comment about this about a month ago. He said something along the lines of ," yeah, ice skating isnt a sport, kinda of like shot put and discus, hahaha." Well, lets examine this a little more. So shot put and discus are in the Olympic games, along with ice skating. And yes these two are totally different sports. But what defines a sport? You have to gain more points than the opponent to win. You have to train for the sport, and you have to physically perform the sport during the game. And yes, some sports are more skill based rather than physical effort during the actual game and vice versa. So with ice skating(lets just talk about figure skating) you have to perform actual moves to win points. If you dont perform the move you dont get points. And you have to do alot of physical work to perform the move. At the end of the judging, the person who performed the most point scored physical moves wins. End of story you cant question it, with the exception of corrupt judging, but if you cant physically complete a move you dont get points, thats a sport. 

Now with shot put and discus, the goal is to beat the other opponents with the distance of your throw, its measured, theres no making it up, its good old fashioned measure it with a tape measure and the farthest throw wins. Its hard to fake this one. Its physically measured in person, theres no people going, " oh, that looks like it went further though." After its measured.. And with discus, its the same shit. And there are set rules as far as how you throw it, and where you throw it from. There is also skill and technique involved. Yes, when you see these competitors doing the throw they arent putting in the same amount of physical effort as a wide receiver during a football game or a soccer player weaving in and out of defenders while he has the ball. But, like i said its a different sport, a different game. With a win that can be physically measured and proven. Now another thing about shot put and discus, is that there is a serious amount of physical training you must do in order to perform the physical throw. This training i would say is more physically difficult than the throw itself, definitely. Which is where people begin to look at these throwing events like," oh, these guys arent doing shit." I get that, but the end of the day, the person in the game who throws it the furthest wins, its proven physically and able to be measured and recorded, and takes a physical effort to make the win, thats a sport, end of story.