Foreseeing the possible threats to safety with the rapid growth of the sport, the industry has been supporting an intense, coordinated educational program with great success since 1947.

One looked forward to Mr. Remarque's ninth book if only because not even a reasonably good novel has yet been written grounded on automobile racing, as dramatic a sport as mankind has devised.

Schwarzenegger has remained a prominent presence in bodybuilding and has written many books and articles on the sport.

Since the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and normally players act individually rather than performing in clusters, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and statistics.

It has long been believed that cricket also descended from such games, though evidence uncovered in early 2009 suggests that the sport may have been imported to England from Flanders .< ref >

Since 1992, badminton has been an Olympic sport with five events: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, in which each pair consists of a man and a woman.

Amateur boxing is an Olympic and Commonwealth sport and is a common fixture in most of the major international games-it also has its own World Championships.

Currently scoring blows in amateur boxing are subjectively counted by ringside judges, but the Australian Institute for Sport has demonstrated a prototype of an Automated Boxing Scoring System, which introduces scoring objectivity, improves safety, and arguably makes the sport more interesting to spectators.

Lara stated this would be his last appearance in international cricket, he has also indicated his interest in retaining some involvement in the sport.

As the largest and most spectacular forest antelope, the western / lowland bongo is both an important flagship species for protected areas such as national parks, and a major trophy species which has been taken in increasing numbers in Central Africa by sport hunters during the 1990s.

Since then, with several relaunches, an increase in funding and resources from the BBC and improvements in digital television technology, the channel has been able to diversify content, with two minute looped bulletins available to view via BBC Red Button, BBC News Online and the BBC's mobile website, alongside individual weather and sport bulletins.

Since then it has only been visited by sport fishermen, regularly scheduled patrols of the French Navy, and by Mexican tuna and shark fishermen.

It has recently come to be known as an " extreme sport " by some ( though not commonly considered as such by its practitioners, who may dislike the term for its perceived connotation of disregard for safety ).

If one has to name a famous boxer, they are more likely to name Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, since their fame expanded beyond the sport itself.

At one point, almost every major city in the US had a velodrome or two for track racing events, however since the middle of the 20th century cycling has become a minority sport in the US whilst in Continental Europe it continues to be a major sport, particularly in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain.

In the past decade, mountain bike racing has also reached international popularity and is even an Olympic sport.

The sport has particularly strong followings in the UK, US, New Zealand and Australia ; every four years, these countries play the MacRobertson Shield tournament.

Curling has been an official sport in the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics.

The growing presentation of cheerleading as a sport to a global audience has been led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On.

There has been debate on whether or not cheerleading can be considered a sport for Title IX purposes.

Since the NCAA has yet to recognize cheerleading as an official college sport, there are no solid numbers on college cheerleading, yet when it comes to injuries, 67 % of female athlete injuries at the college level are due to cheerleading mishaps.

Adams has spoken positively about the change, saying, " This makes cartooning a competitive sport.

Variants of the sport have recently emerged.

Juggling has, more recently, been promoted as a competitive sport by organizations such as the World Juggling Federation.

The Jockey Club is not a club for jockeys ; but rather exists to regulate the sport of horseracing ; the Marylebone Cricket Club was until recently the regulatory body of cricket, and so on.

Licking County schools recently won at least one state title in four straight sport seasons: Heath in both Boys Track and Boys Baseball ( 2007 ), Newark Catholic in Football ( 2007 ), Newark in Boys Basketball ( 2008 ) and Lakewood in Softball ( 2008 ).

While not traditionally enjoying a reputation for competitive sport, King's has recently rebuked this generalisation.

" As recently as the early 1960s, carabao races were a popular sport in the island, especially during fiestas.

Monté ( races to saddle ) have recently been introduced in larger scale in Norway, to increase interest and recruitment to the sport.

However, the first real public courts have recently opened in the Westway sports centre in London's White City, marking a possible change in fortunes for Eton Fives as a minor sport.

IDBF's membership application had been previously blocked by the GAISF member representing canoe and kayak racing, an international sporting association that originated early in the 20th century following the development of canoe sport in the late 19th century and which claimed to automatically control the boat races which have existed for over two thousand years prior, despite not having organised any competitions or promoted the activity until only very recently and some 30 years after the international modern sport was already being organised and promoted by dragon boat specialists with the assistance of the rowing fraternity.

The Japanese Festival recently began to include sumo wrestling, adding this sport to taiko drumming and kimono fashion shows.

Even more recently, Tiger Woods referred to the year as " one of the greatest years in the history of the sport.

Others modify sport for entertainment purposes: many types of professional wrestling ( which derived from traditional wrestling ), roller derby ( derived from roller skating ), and more recently many of the various mascot races held at numerous Major League Baseball games in-between innings.

It has its origins in mixed climbing, ice climbing and more recently sport climbing.

More recently dry tooling has tended towards secure bolted protection ( sport ) and may not involve the presence of ice at all.

More than a promotional tool, it contains an average of 60 links to recently updated regional news, weather and sport in a number of formats.

The town's sport scene is dominated by local rugby league club, Featherstone Rovers, who have won the Challenge Cup on three occasions most recently on 7 May 1983 and won the League Championship in 1976-77.

The primary sports played by the school are rugby union, field hockey and cricket, however association football as well as samoan cricket have both recently been introduced as an ' official ' school sport and looks set to challenge the more established sports over the coming years.

The All-Union sport society of Dinamo itself was just recently formed in 1923 on the initiative of the " Iron Felix ".

The sport of shinty has recently been resurrected in Kinlochbervie by the local school, shinty was once played across North Sutherland until the 20th century but never competitively.

Women's amateur wrestling ( a modified form of freestyle ) is gaining popularity around the world, and has recently been added as an Olympic sport.

In general, the sport organisations in Alaverdi are very poor but some steps are being taken by the Football Federation of Armenia towards the promotion of the game in the region of Lori, therefore the town's only stadium ; the Alaverdi City Stadium, which is located deep in the forests, was recently turned into an all seater stadium with a capacity of 1, 000 seats to serve some young football teams and sport-schools.

More recently, in response to former IBA Heavyweight Champion James Toney's challenge to fight an MMA fighter in the boxing ring, Belfort has stated that he wants to represent the sport of MMA against Toney in a 6 round professional match.