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A sport played annually on St. Andrew's Day on a 5-by-110-metre (16 ft × 361 ft) field. The last goal was scored in 1909. Extreme ironing: A sport whereby participants take an ironing board to a remote location and iron a few items of clothing. Fair catch kick: A little-known way to score points in American football left over from rugby.
Keep reading for ten weird Olympic sports you probably didn't know existed. 1. Ballooning ... The first-ever tug-of-war Olympic gold medal went to a combined team from Sweden and Denmark, after ...
ESPN8 The Ocho is a special program block showcasing seldom-seen obscure sports that airs on the networks of ESPN Inc.. The Ocho consists of lesser-known, unconventional and humorous sports and other competitions with some athletic or physical skill component, including Pop-A-Shot, roller derby, crossnet, bowling, Quidditch, trampoline dodgeball, air hockey, darts, cornhole, disc golf, kabaddi ...
Jai alai is a popular sport within the Latin American countries and the Philippines due to its Hispanic influence. It was one of the two gambling sports from Europe, the other being horse racing, in the semi-colonial Chinese cities of Shanghai and Tianjin, and was shut down after the communist victory there. The jai alai arena in Tianjin's ...
In Europe, biathlon is the most-watched winter sport on television. In the U.S., it is obscure, impossible and fascinating. Why you should root for biathlon, the Winter Olympics’ weirdest sport
Extreme sports is a sub-category of sports that are described as any kind of sport "of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average". [27] These kinds of sports often carry out the potential risk of serious and permanent physical injury and even death. [ 28 ]
He and Chris Paul led the Rockets to the 2018 Western Conference finals, pushing one of the greatest teams ever assembled to a Game 7, but in Paul's absence, Houston missed a postseason record 27 ...
The men's marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, United States, took place on August 30 of that year, over a distance of 24 miles 1500 yards (40 km). [1]The race was run during the hottest part of the day on dusty country roads with minimal water supply; while 32 athletes coming from seven nations (the United States, France, Cuba, Greece, the Orange River Colony, Great Britain, and ...