Freebandy is a sport that developed in the 2000s from floorball fanatics who specialize in a technique called " zorro ", which involves lifting the ball onto a stick and allowing air resistance and fast movements to keep the ball " stuck " to the stick.

* American basketball player Michael Jordan bursts onto the scene in the NBA during the 1980s, bringing a surge in popularity for the sport and becoming one of the most beloved sports icons in the United States.

Snowboarding is a winter sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow while standing on a board attached to a rider's feet, using a special boot set onto a mounted binding.

By 1995, practically every ski produced had more or less " shaping ", and for a time, carving became a sport onto its own.

The two popular showings in St. Louis and Stockholm laid the groundwork for baseball's international surge in popularity, leading the sport to be placed onto the program as an exhibition sport at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games.

In 1986, a historic IOC vote put baseball onto the Olympic Programme as a medal sport for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.

Lettermen who participate in a sport in which medals are awarded often sew the medals onto their jackets to display their accomplishments.

Sperry first broke onto the sport Jiu-Jitsu scene in the early eighties.

This variety, coupled with the ability for the climbs to be changed by attaching the holds onto the wall differently, has resulted in indoor climbing becoming a very successful sport.

In this sport, the participants are trying to leap onto a bull, specifically reaching for the money packets tied to the bull's horns as a prize.

She promptly coerces Sakura into becoming its second member ( by sticking him onto a board and leaving him there until he joins ) and has stated her desire to achieve the national championship in this particular ' sport '.

A four sport All-State and All-America athlete for the Forrest City High School Mustangs, Kessinger graduated high school in 1960 and went onto the University of Mississippi.

Among the tournaments in this series is the venerable All-England Championships, first held in 1900, which was once considered the unofficial world championships of the sport.

In 2004, ESPN ranked boxing as the most difficult sport in the world.

* In the Thursday Next series of novels, notably Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde depicts an alternative world in which croquet is a brutal mass spectator sport.

Masters ' Diving events are normally conducted in age-groups of 5 or 10 years, and attract competitors of a wide range of ages and experience ( many, indeed, are newcomers to the sport ); the oldest competitor in a Masters ' Diving Championship was Viola Krahn, who at the age of 101 was the first person in any sport, male or female, anywhere in the world, to compete in an age-group of 100 + years in a nationally organized competition.

Each of FAO ’ s Goodwill Ambassadors – celebrities from the arts, entertainment, sport and academia such as Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, actress Gong Li, the late singer Miriam Makeba, and soccer players Roberto Baggio and Raúl, to name a few – has made a personal and professional commitment to FAO ’ s vision: a food-secure world for present and future generations.

Geodashing is an outdoor sport in which teams of players use GPS receivers to find and visit randomly-selected " dashpoints " ( also called " waypoints ") around the world and report what they find.

* International Surfing Association is the world governing authority for the sport of surfing

A fiercely contested Tasman championship has now led to a three way world championship ( with the introduction of the sport to the United States, under the auspices of the Union Internationale Motonautique ).

The list of ' modern ' world champions extended into the 1980s, when the sport entered the catamaran, and then the ' superboat ' era-the 1000 cubic inch total engine displacement restrictions were lifted for boats over in length, and soon three-and four-engine boats sporting F16 fighter canopies replaced the venerable vee hulls that had been the sport's top category for twenty years.

Hence it can rightly claim to have introduced offshore powerboat racing to the rest of the world outside the United States where the modern sport was launched with the first Miami-Nassau Race in 1956.

It is a popular sport in Japan and Europe and is gaining in popularity in other parts of the world.

As a result a completely new design much larger in diameter but with much smaller increased air resistance was born, these new designed parasails can now be seen all over the world transforming the sport of parasailing.

" Cordner Nelson, founder of Track & Field News, credited Nurmi for popularizing running as a spectator sport: " His imprint on the track world was greater than any man ’ s before or after.

The many different formats are a result of the long history of the sport, its development in different regions of the world, and specific local requirements and restrictions.

The sport is played almost in every country in the world.

Sometimes the sport is called Quad Hockey, Hóquei em Patins ( PT ), Rolhockey ( NL ), Rollhockey ( DE ), International Style Ball hockey, Rink Hockey ( FR ), Hockey Su Pista ( IT ), Hoquei sobre Patins ( CA ), Hockey sobre Patines ( ES ), Rulleskøjtehockey ( DA ), Rullbandy ( S ), Rulluisuhoki ( ET ) and Hardball hockey ( US ), depending on which region of the world it is played.

Boxing is also a popular sport in Sub-Saharan Africa with a long history with Senegalese born fighter Battling Siki the first world champion to come out of Sub-Saharan Africa.

A world cup is generally considered the premier competition in its sport, with the victor attaining the highest honour in that sport and able to lay claim to the title of their sport's best.

Some sport governing bodies prefer the title world championship or a related term ; some even organize both a world cup and a world championship with different rules.

* June 27 – Canadian-born boxer George Dixon defeats the British bantamweight champion in London, giving him claim to be the first black world champion in any sport.

He was also active in the sport of trapshooting, taking an active role on the national stage in competitions.

Since the 1960s, stage rallies have been the professional branch of the sport.

Instead, the Greek sports of chariot racing and wrestling, as well as the Etruscan sport of gladiatorial combat, took center stage.

Nevertheless this was a breakthrough for women in sport that would one day lead to full recognition and programming for women's athletics on the international stage.

Today the park is home to annual summer events such as the Lurgan Agricultural Show, and the Lurgan Park Rally, noted as the largest annual motor sport event in Northern Ireland and a stage in the Circuit of Ireland rally.

This type of second stage regulator is now standard in the sport.

Many famous people connected with literature, sport, film and stage live or have lived in Datchet — Valentine Dyall, Billy Cotton, Billie Whitelaw, and Sir Donald Pleasence.

It has a three stage adjustable adaptive damping system including normal, sport and track modes.

Players usually come into events in different rounds based on their ranking, and the top players in the sport are usually seeded through to the venue stage and do not have to play a qualification match.

Typical for athletes from Cuba, where professional sport is prohibited, his reward is pride in representing his people on the Olympic stage.

Green also wrote and / or narrated many radio documentaries about stage and film musical stars and Hollywood, his other main interest apart from jazz and sport.

As the sport gradually changed and adopted the European " stage " format, performance rallying became part of the Canadian motorsport picture.

The exterior space has also been used to stage events such as live-action motor sport displays and a circus.

I love this sport and I'm excited to go to this new stage in my life and keep promoting the best sport in the world, the sport I love ... now that I'm retired.

In the 2000s, Brazil became the leading force in the sport, winning three consecutive editions ( 2002, 2006 and 2010 ), the first of which in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the same stage where the Brazilians had been runner-ups in 1982.

Bermudan sport continues to enjoy a growing profile on the global stage.

The history of cricket to 1725 traces the sport's development from its perceived origins to the stage where it had become a major sport in England and had been introduced to other countries.

In 1863 a football association was formed which governed rules and regulations for this quickly changing sport, which was still in amateur competition stage and played in an un-scheduled format until 1909 when a league format was introduced.

His only appearance on the Olympic stage came in 1992, when the sport returned to the Olympics after a 20-year absence.