2. EUROPE:
One common sport in Europe is the football:
The most common sport in Europe is association football
(soccer). European club teams are the highest paid in the world,
and the UEFA Champions League (the European clubs
championship) is one of the sport's most prestigious
tournaments. European national teams compete in the UEFA
European Football Championship. The most popular and
successful football leagues are the Spanish La Liga, the English
Premier League, the Italian Serie A, the French Ligue 1, and the
German Bundesliga.
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4. EUROPE:
Tennis is a racquet sport that can be played individually
against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of
two players each (doubles). Each player uses a racquet that
is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered
with felt over or around a net and into the opponent´s
court.
The object of the game is to play the ball in such a way that
the opponent is not able to play a good return.
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6. AUSTRALIA:
Another common sport of Australia is SURF:
For centuries, surfing was a central part of ancient Polynesian culture. Surfing
may have first been observed by Europeans at Tahiti in 1767 by Samuel Wallis
and the crew members of the Dolphin who were the first Europeans to visit the
island in June of that year. Another candidate is the botanist Joseph Banks[2]
being part of the first voyage of James Cook on theHMS Endeavour, who arrived
on Tahiti on 10 April 1769. Lieutenant James King was the first person to write
about the art of surfing on Hawaii when he was completing the journals of
Captain James Cook upon Cook's death in 1779.
When Mark Twain visited Hawaii in 1866 he wrote,
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8. AUSTRALIA:
Buroinjin has been added to the curriculum of around half of all Canberra
schools and it is one of more than 100 traditional sports being taught to
Australian teachers.
The rules have been adapted from the game played by the Kabi Kabi people of
southern Queensland, with modern-day teams having 15 minutes to score goals
with minimal contact
"It's just everyone working together as a team," Wanniassa Hills Primary School
student Samir Ezzat, 11, said.
"Once you have the ball you are only allowed to take five steps to bounce it five
steps. You can't bounce it again."
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10. AFRICA:
The most important sport in Africa is the
MARTIAL ARTS:
Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat
practices, which are practiced for a variety of reasons: self-
defense, competition, physical health and fitness,
entertainment, as well as mental, physical, and spiritual
development.Although the term martial art has become
associated with the fighting arts of Africa.
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12. AFRICA
ANOTHER COMMON SPORT IN Africa is Nuba:
Training for both wrestling and stick fighting includes
practicing under the supervision of former champions,
performing athletic dances, learning traditional songs, and
drinking lots of milk while avoiding promiscuity and beer.
The goal of Nuba wrestling is to slam the opponent to the
ground. Wrestling is relatively recreational, and serious
injuries are rare.
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14. NORTH AMERICA:
Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five
players on a rectangular court. The objective is to
shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches (46 cm) in
diameter and 10 feet (3.048 m) high mounted to
abackboard at each end. Basketball is one of the
world's most popular and widely viewed sports.[1]
The inventor of basketball is James Naismith.
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16. NORTH AMERICA
THE MOST IMPORTANT SPORT IN NORTH AMERICA IS THE
RUGBY:
Rugby is a sport born in England the inventor of rugby is
Willian Webb Ellis.The rugby is a sport in which face two
hardware of fifteen players in which the main objective
fundamental
is to get more points than the opponent, the points can be
obtained from 5 ways are: Try, penalty try, drop goal, goal
from a penalty and conversion or transformation.
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18. SOUTH AMERICA:
Volleyball is a team sport in
which two teams of six players
are separated by a net. Each
team tries to score points by
grounding a ball on the other
team's court under organized
rules. It has been a part of the
official program of the
Summer Olympic Games since
1964.
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20. SOUTH AMERICA:
A very common sport in south america is the ajutatut.
Players form a circle, standing or kneeling, and placed a
hand on his back.
The goal is that a ball go past a player to his right, hitting
it with the palm of the free hand and preventing it from
falling to the ground. Obviously it is not allowed catching
the ball at any time.
Sometimes players count the number of turns the ball
hits before falling to the ground.
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22. ASIA:
KOK-BORU is a traditional sport of Asia,consist of
people who go on horse and struggle to get the skin
of a sheep.
23. ASIA:
PIRAGÜISMO is tipical sport of Asia.Canoeing is a
paddle sport in which you kneel or sit facing
forward in an open or closed-decked canoe, and
propel yourself with a single-bladed paddle, under
your own power. Kayaking is a comparable activity
in a kayak which usually has a closed deck and is
propelled with a double bladed paddle. In a kayak
the paddler typically sits with legs extended
forward.
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25. CREDITOS:
Hecho por 4 alumnos
del colegio Publico
Maestro Juan Alcaide.
En:
Valdepeñas,(CASTILLA-
LA MANCHA)ESPAÑA.
