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An unofficial national sport is an activity that holds significant popularity or cultural and historical significance within a particular nation but lacks legal recognition as the official national sport. These informal national sports typically reflect a nation's preferences and their perceived connection to the nation's culture and identity ...
Cricket is the third most popular sport in Asia, and is most popular in South Asia. [2] Other popular sports in Asia include baseball, badminton and table tennis among others. There are also some traditional sports that are popular in certain regions of Asia, such as the South Asian sports kabaddi and kho-kho, [3] and sepak takraw in Southeast ...
Some national teams with FIFA membership have disappeared due to belonging to a sovereign state or dependent territory which split into two or more states or territories (examples include the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, or the Netherlands Antilles), or by part of the territory becoming independent (such as the Ireland national football team ...
National: Asia Pride Games (The Straits Games) [161] 2002: 2023: 4 Cambodia, Phnom Penh: Regional: Sexual orientation: the name “ Asia Gay Sports” was first coined in 2014. The Finnish Championships Week (SM-viikko) 2016: 2023: 1 Finland, Lahti: National: The Swedish Championships Week of Summer (SM Week) 2009: 2023: 1 Sweden, Umeå: National
Football in Asia is enormously diversified and it banks on various surroundings and periods. During the 21st century, football is emerging as a prominent sport in the Asian countries, with Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, [3] India introducing the Super League in 2013 and Qatar and the United Arab Emirates' huge investment in clubs ...
Football, the world's most popular sport, [1] is played in the majority of countries in Central Asia. The Asian Football Confederation or AFC is the governing body of association football in Asia, similar to UEFA in Europe and FIFA worldwide. [2] The following countries all have organisations affiliated to the AFC: Afghanistan; Iran; Kyrgyzstan ...
National Games Beijing, China 5:31.88 Maryam Yusuf Jamal Bahrain 7 June 2009 Eugene, United States 3000 m: 8:06.11 Wang Junxia China 13 September 1993 National Games Beijing, China Two miles: 9:13.85 Mimi Belete Bahrain 31 May 2014 Prefontaine Classic: Eugene, United States [39] 5000 m: 14:28.09 Jiang Bo China 23 October 1997 National Games
OCA: Independent Athletes competed at the 2022 Asian Games as neutrals under the Olympic Council of Asia flag, consist of the Sri Lanka national rugby sevens team whose federation was suspended by the World Rugby. SRI: Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon (CEY) between 1951 and 1970. TPE: Chinese Taipei was known as Republic of China (ROC) between ...