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    During the 2002 Winter Olympics, the two Australian comedians who gave the world Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat (see "Animals in sports" below) launched a bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics in New South Wales, Australia. SpoGomi: A sport where teams have to collect as much litter as possible. Sports-related curses: A variety of excuses for bad ...

  3. 30 Unusual Facts No One Really Asked For, But Are ... - AOL

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    Image credits: 1stPeter3-15 #21. The first public game of basketball was played the same week and less than 100 miles away from the last American vampire hunt.

  4. 10 Weird Olympic Sports That No Longer Exist, from Tug of War ...

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    Underwood Archives/Getty Images. It's a nightmare-inducing feat for most teens in physical education (been there), but believe it or not, the activity was an official Olympic sport in 1896, 1904 ...

  5. Sports in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Sports are particularly associated with education in the United States, with most high schools and universities having organized sports, and this is a unique sporting footprint for the U.S. College sports competitions play an important role in the American sporting culture, and college basketball and college football are more popular than ...

  6. Sport in South America - Wikipedia

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    The biggest center for these sports in South America is Rio de Janeiro and its neighboring city Niterói. Several Olympic medalists in yachting have trained in Guanabara Bay , such as Martine Grael , Clinio Freitas , Daniel Adler , Eduardo Penido , Isabel Swan , Kiko Pellicano , Marcelo Ferreira , Marcos Soares , Nelson Falcão and Ronaldo Senfft .

  7. 5 of the Wackiest Sports in Olympic History

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    Running deer shooting at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games. Credit - AP. T here will be 32 sports at the Paris Summer Olympic Games (Jul. 26-Aug. 11). While some events—such as fencing, swimming ...

  8. Quidditch (real-life sport) - Wikipedia

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    Quidditch, [4] officially and commonly known as quadball since 2022, is a team sport that was created in 2005 at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, United States, and was inspired by the fictional game of the same name in the Harry Potter books by the author J. K. Rowling. [5]

  9. Black History Month: 19 black athletes who made history - AOL

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    American sports wouldn't be what they are today without the trailblazing black athletes of years past. From household names like Jackie Robinson to more recent history-makers like Vonetta Flowers ...