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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.
Underwood Archives/Getty Images. It's a nightmare-inducing feat for most teens in physical education (been there), but believe it or not, the activity was an official Olympic sport in 1896, 1904 ...
Home Game is a sports documentary television series. The series profiles unique and dangerous traditional sports from around the world, as well as the communities and cultures where they thrive. [1] [2] [3] The series premiered on Netflix on 26 June 2020 and is narrated by Mark Strong.
Bog snorkelling is a sporting event where competitors aim to complete two consecutive lengths of a 60 yards (55 m) water-filled trench cut through a peat bog in the shortest time possible, wearing traditional snorkel, diving mask and flippers.
Look, the modern pentathlon is a deeply strange event, a competition still in search of an identity. It can’t decide whether it’s a refined test of athletic prowess or a glowing, club-music ...
In the late 1900s Women's Sports started to gain popularity in the media because of their talent in the Olympics. [198] In 1999, women's sports coverage reached an all-time high when it was recorded at 8.7%. It maintained its higher percentages until it reached an all-time low in 2009, decreasing to 1.6%.
The women's vault record has been advanced 9 times indoors by three different women, each ratified as a world record. The last record to be set indoors was in 2004. Sergey Bubka 's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect.
If Formula One and NASCAR feel dull, maybe it’s time to attach a bar stool to a go-kart, racing combine harvesters, speeding backward or other bizarre sports.