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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.
1904 – The first public match of the women's sport camogie was played in Meath, Ireland. Camogie was developed as a women's variation of the men's sport hurling, with similar rules and equipment. [42] 1904 - Women's boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games as a demonstration sport in 1904, in St. Louis. [43]
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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 ...
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 ...
2018 – Women's National Basketball Players Association opted out of their collective bargaining agreement. [17] 2018 – On International Women's Day, the International Olympic Committee announced their proposal of the Gender Equality Review Project, which outlined 25 recommendations to achieve gender equality in sports. Three of them were ...
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.
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.