Sporting beauty as moral virtue...

...Federer and cricket

Federer, by contrast, is "an aristocrat": a player who was born with immense talents and who dedicated his life to their expression. Federer stresses skill, imagination, vision, wit, style, panache. He is beautiful where Nadal is ugly. Skidelsky explores the possibility that this difference is not just one of style and approach, but one that asks moral questions of what sport is about and how it should be played.

I agree with the writer generally but I think no one should use terms like "ugly" for sporting greats or, for that matter, anyone.