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Glastron V-142 Skilifte motor boat in Forum Marinum maritime museum. Glastron is a boat manufacturing company and was one of the first manufacturers of fiberglass boats. Glastron is owned by Rec Boat Holdings, a subsidiary of Groupe Beneteau. Bob Hammond, Bill Gaston, Bob Shoop, and Guy Woodard founded the company on October 14, 1956, in Austin ...
Sports with extremely limited or nonexistent contemporary practice. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. O. Obsolete blood sports (2 C, 21 P)
At the Summer Olympics, there have been eight Olympic sports that have been discontinued.. For the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, long-discontinued sports in golf (last competed in 1904) and rugby (last competed in 1924) were reinstated as Olympic sports, though rugby was as rugby sevens (having previously been rugby union).
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, 1906, 1924 and 1932.
Requiring little or no physical exertion or agility, mind sports are often not considered true sports. Some mind sports are recognised by sporting federations. The following list is intended to represent anything that is likely to be referred to as a mind sport, not to argue their validity as sports.
Sure, being an Olympic sport carries a certain air of prestige. But the Olympics aren’t the only way to athletic immortality. Plenty of elite athletes — NFL players, F1 drivers, overnight ...
Sno-Jet was a brand of snowmobile first produced in Quebec, Canada in 1965. They quickly proved popular and grew to be a well-selling line of snowmobiles until the early 1970s, helping usher the then-new sport of snowmobiling into Canada and the United States. [1]
The study projects that recreational tennis players will live an average of 9.7 years longer than they would have otherwise. (Playing badminton may extend life span by 6.2 years, swimming by 3.4 ...