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The following is a list of sports and games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 known indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
The criteria which must be satisfied for ratification of a world record are defined by World Athletics in Part III of the Competition Rules. [1] These criteria also apply to national or other restricted records and also to performances submitted as qualifying marks for eligibility to compete in major events such as the Olympic Games.
This is a list of the largest sports contracts. These figures include signing bonuses but exclude options, buyouts , and the endorsement deals. This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing .
With Kenya's stranglehold on the men's 3000m steeplechase broken by El Bakkali, the longest active track-and-field gold medal streak belongs to the U.S. women, who have won six straight golds in ...
Longest career as national team coach: 43 years – Mircea Lucescu for Romania, 1981–2024 [121] Oldest manager: 93 years – Ivor Powell [122] Oldest manager coaching a national team: 80 years, 35 days – Roque Máspoli, Uruguay v Ecuador, 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification [123]
The name seems to be originated from the French term for field hockey, le jeu de la crosse. [ 25 ] James Smith described in some detail a game being played in 1757 by Mohawk people "wherein now they used a wooden ball, about 3 inches (7.6 cm) in diameter, and the instrument they moved it with was a strong staff about 5 feet (1.5 m) long, with a ...
The Roman Games, held in ancient Rome, focused on Greek sports as well as the Etruscan sport of gladiatorial combat. Other multi-sport festivals emerged in the Middle Ages in Europe, including the Cotswold Olimpick Games in England, the Highland games in Scotland still in existence today, and the Olympiade de la République in France in the ...