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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.
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.
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 ...
An autonomous polity in Greece home to 20 monasteries, notable for being the only political subdivision in the world in which women (as well as female animals) are prohibited from entering for any reason. Municipalities of Liechtenstein: The blotchy, angular borders between these divisions seem almost arbitrarily strange. The UAE's are ...
High school sports participation hasn't reached parity among girls and boys. After the passage of Title IX in 1972, girls sports participation skyrocketed. But that growth started to plateau ...
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.
Camogie (/ k ə ˈ m oʊ ɡ i / kə-MOH-ghee; Irish: camógaíocht [kəˈmˠoːɡiːxt̪ˠ]) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women.Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities.