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The sport of athletics is defined by the many events which make up its competition programmes. All events within the sport are forms of running , walking , jumping or throwing . These events are divided into the sub-sports of track and field , road running , racewalking and cross country running .
Sports organizations of Europe by sport (1 C) Sports teams in Europe by sport (3 C) A. Archery in Europe (4 C, 1 P) Athletics in Europe (67 C, 10 P) B.
European sport by year (309 C) * Europe sport-related lists (54 C, 7 P) European people in sports (60 C) C. Sports competitions in Europe (44 C) D. Sport deaths in ...
The origins of many of the world's most popular sports today lie in the codification of many traditional games, especially in the United Kingdom. However, a paradoxical feature of European sport is the extent to which local, regional and national variations continue to exist, and even in some instances to predominate. [1]
Each continent has at least one major continental Games; the Asian Games are held for athletes in Asia; In Africa, the African Games perform the same continental function, and in the Americas, the largest multi-sport event that fits the description is the Pan American Games; countries in Oceania compete in the Pacific Games, while Europe has ...
The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]
Sports competitions in Europe by region (5 C) A. Sport in the Alps (16 C, 8 P) B. Sport in the Balkans (18 C, 9 P) Sport in the Baltic states (14 C, 29 P) F.
Competitive running grew out of religious festivals in various areas. The origins of the Olympics are shrouded in myth, though the first recorded game took place in 776 BCE. [ 1 ] In Gaelic Ireland the Tailteann Games , which featured footraces, are attested from the 6th century CE; medieval chroniclers gave founding dates as early as 1829 BCE.