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Athletes competed in the nude in the ancient Olympics It's the biggest spectator sport in the world and most people call it "Football." So where does the word "soccer" come from? In 1891, James Naismith, a physical education instructor, introduced modern basketball. But basketball was played for hundreds of years before that A badminton shuttle travels easily up to 180 km/h (112 mph). It is one of the fastest objects in sports. But there's more to badminton One of the world's strongest men got his start in the business when he happened to meet a 79 kg (175 lb) man in his 70s who could bend 60-penny railroad spikes in his bare hands. High speed, super agility and enormous endurance is needed to play korfball Is it the sense of belonging, the vindication, or pure madness? Why do we love sports? Sports Fast Facts - weird, odd... but sporting. The directory of World Champions for regular and weird sports. Mark Twain became a huge fan of horse racing whilst traveling in Australia, where he happened upon the Melbourne Cup, Australia's most famous sporting event, which was first run in 1861. In his "Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World" he records his amazement noting, "Nowhere in the world have I encountered a festival of people that has such a magnificent appeal to the whole nation. The Cup astonishes me." Poker is without a doubt one of the the world's fastest growing sport and pastimes in the last decade. Following the explosive growth of online poker rooms and online qualifiers to the World Series of Poker, the number of entrants to the World Championship has grown by more than a factor of 20 since the late 90s.
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