Hahaha, no. That's like saying using Facebook or Twitter for 10+ hours a day requires a massive amount of stamina and skill.

If professional Poker is a sport then Shouldn't eSports be considered a sport?

Yes, so poker shouldn't be considered a sport, either.

If poker is a sport, so is Magic: The Gathering. If Magic: The Gathering is a sport, then the word sport has no meaning at all.

Edit: Or put it this way. It may be a "sport", but its players are not athletes.

So any activity not done with at least 200lb of weight is not a sport in your mind?

Competitive gaming is as much a sport as chess imo, but I wouldn't call either an athlete. People are even arguing whether or not race drivers are athletes (they truly are imo, most people have no idea how much physical strain is put on the body during a race).
Playing video games in and on itself is not any form of athleticism, agreed? Then by extension; I would argue that people who happen to compete in said video games aren't athletes, a simple change of setting does nothing to change that (a ferocious Starcraft match on LAN vs one in a contest).
E-gaming has been classified as sports in more and more places, and that's fine, sports as an expression does not imply that there is a heavy element of athleticism involved, the term "athlete" does not cover e-gaming competitors in my honest opinion.

Bottom line for me; sportsman: granted, why not? Athlete: no, not as such, there is no proper grounds for calling these competitors athletes.

No. But any activity that involves sitting in a chair and clicking a mouse is not a sport in my mind, and its players are sure as hell not athletes. If they are then my greatest show of athleticism was playing Final Fantasy IV for 24 hours straight when I was 12.

To bad it is, and by the US government eSports Athlete's are considered Athlete's so they win XD

Maybe on day we will se it In the Olympics.

The US government is wrong about everything, so I win.

So would you be happy if pro gamers are labeled as a "Sportsman" like someone mentioned earlier in the thread? If so I can agree with that, I think it's a much more fitting title.

The only question coming to my mind is: What difference does it make, in practice?

I mean, I'd also be generally fine if some guy enrolled in a University as a woman, a chicken or a cheeseburger, if that's what he considers himself and it doesn't make any actual difference anyway.

If, however, it's because there are certain advantages related to enrolling as a woman, chicken, cheeseburger or whatever, I might be against them enrolling as that, I might protest "Hey, you're not a cheeseburger!"

Almost the same can be said about musicians. Should we consider them athletes too? and if so: Why? What's the point?!?