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History of Football Early history The first mention of football can be found in old Mesoamerican cultures over 3,000 years ago. The round rock would symbolise the sun and the captain of the losing ...
History of Basketball The invention of the sport Basketball was invented to find a solution for indoor winter play in Massachusetts. In December 1891, a Canadian educator, and physician James Naismith. Naismith introduced this ...
History of Adventure Sports The passion for adventure sports has been observed for several centuries. An archaeological excavation of a 6000-year-old civilization in Chile shows that they had freediving culture. Even Alexander the Great ...
History of Weightlifting Ancient Egyptian artefacts depict the sport of weightlifting. The Egyptians lifted heavy bags of sand as a form of physical training. Mural from the tomb of Beni Hasan dates back to ...
History of Swimming- Rock paintings of swimmers The history of swimming dates back to cave age as 10,000-year-old rock paintings of people swimming were found in the Cave of Swimmers near Wadi Sura in ...
History of Boxing- The blood sport The earliest evidence of boxing competitions, according to Encyclopedia Britannica was found in the 3rd millennium BC in the Mesopotamian nations of Assyria and Babylonia, and in Hittite art ...
History of Athletics- World’s oldest sport Athletics is one of the world’s oldest sporting events. Athletic contests in running, walking, jumping and throwing are among the oldest of all sports and their roots are prehistoric. ...
History of Indian game Chaturanga It is believed that the chess is derived from the Indian game ‘Chaturanga’. The name comes froma battle formation mentioned in the Indian epic Mahabharata, referring to four divisions ...