According to the rules of the International Academy, a sport documentary is "a factual presentation dedicated to physical or mind sports
activities (e.g. Team, Individual, Extreme, Esports, Intellectual, etc.), sports competitions and/or sportspersons".[2]
In order to quality for the category, the program must be at least 20 minutes in length and it must be a single edited program, broadcast in one or more episodes. If the program is a series, two episodes must be submitted to represent the series as a whole. The program may employ partial re-enactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact and not on fiction.