One-third of skateboarders with reported injuries are very new to the sport, having started skating within one week of the injury.

By 1986, although still very much a minority sport, commercial snowboards started appearing in leading French ski resorts.

Skurfing is a sport that has many origins but is said to be created in Australia and New Zealand with bindingless hand shaped boards designed specifically for towing A ' skurf board ' was lent to Jeff Darby and friends in Queensland, Australia who started to make their own and who later came in contact with Tony Finn who was to later produce their brand ' Skurfer ' under royalty.

The introduction of the Next Generation Touring Car specification, from 2011, started a phased transition from Super 2000 cars in an effort to cut costs and improve the sport.

Porsche started to evolve a line of sports prototypes from the late 1950s ; noted for their toughness and reliability they started to win in races of attrition such as the Targa Florio and as they grew bigger ( via the Porsche 910 to the Porsche 908 and finally the Porsche 917 ) the Stuttgart marque became first a competitor for overall wins and then came to dominate sports car racing – both they and Mercedes have made intermittent returns to the top level of the sport through the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

Later, in the 1960s, motorcycle engines were also adapted for kart use, before dedicated manufacturers, especially in Italy ( IAME ), started to build engines for the sport.

** Sport spearfishing became common in the Mediterranean, and spearfishers gradually developed the common sport diving mask and fins and snorkel, with Georges Beuchat in Marseille, France, which created the speargun and Italian sport spearfishers started using oxygen rebreathers.

** In San Diego, California, the first sport diving club is started by Glenn Orr, Jack Prodanovich and Ben Stone, called the San Diego Bottom Scratchers.

** In France a sport diving club is started, called the Club des Sous-l ' Eau = " club of those are under the water ".

* 1936: On the French Riviera, the first known sport scuba diving club started.

This forced Siebe Gorman's and Heinke's prices down and started them selling to the sport diving trade.

With this, Theseus started the sport of wrestling.

* Golden Boy Promotions, combat sport promotional firm started by former boxer Oscar De La Hoya

Yabusame also started as a sport in this period, but is now considered a sacred ceremony.

Woods started his son in golf at a very early age, and coached him exclusively for his first years in the sport.

Gower attended prep school at Marlborough House School in Hawkhurst from the age of 8 to 13, where he started to lean towards cricket as his preferred sport.

Women ’ s basketball started as a club sport in 1970 and five years later it became a varsity sport when scholarships were offered.

Women's college softball started at Nebraska in 1976, before it was an official NCAA sport.

In India, organized professional Paintball began in early 2005 when The Paintball Co. was established with the help of PALS ( Paintball Asia League Series ) which governs this sport in the Asian Circuit and started its first professional Paintball Gaming arena at Damdama, Gurgaon-Harayana ( near India's capital New Delhi ).

Purists of the sport claim that it was started in 1997 in Leicester, East Midlands, England by resident Phil Shaw in his back garden.

Soccer is one of his passions ; he started playing soccer with his father when he was a little boy and it grew to be his favorite sport and one that would take him to other countries around the world.

Since trampolining became an Olympic sport in 2000, many more countries have started developing programs and China's program developed World Champion athletes in less than a decade.

The game of Crown Green Bowls is looking to grow with the introduction of the Portuguese Masters in October and recent interest from Sky TV to re-televise the sport.

The sport is moving more to a circuit racing style also known as " run what you brung ", which makes for a better TV and spectator experience, though there are still old fashioned endurance offshore racing classes.

A feature of Romanian Television after 2000 was the boom of specialized channels-such as soap opera and telenovela channels ( Acasă TV, Romantica, Antena 4-Euforia lifestyle TV ), sport channels ( such as Sport. ro and Telesport ), talk channels ( Antena 2 ) news channels ( Realitatea TV, Antena 3 and N24 ), different movie genres or documentary types, and even specializing on different musical styles ( UTV Romania and MTV being geared toward club, dance and hip-hop music, whereas Favorit TV and Etno TV towards folklore, and Taraf TV towards manele ).

The Club, in 2002, was one of the first shows to immerse sport with reality TV, based on a fabricated club competing against real clubs in the sport of Australian rules football ; the audience helped select which players played each week by voting for their favorites.

Wayne Wong gave the sport instant exposure starring in a highly visible Pepsi TV commercial.

The " sport " gained international attention after a documentary entitled Extreme Ironing: Pressing for Victory, was produced for Britain's Channel 4 by Wag TV.

Nigel Benn retired from the sport of boxing and became a DJ, He later appeared in the first series of the ITV reality TV show I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !.

He also popularized the sport with his role as a commentator on the Wonderful World of Golf television show, and was an early TV broadcaster at important events.

He was on the Stargate SG-1 hockey team, competing against the teams of other Vancouver-based productions such as Smallville, and also displayed his aptitude for the sport in the 2006 TV movie Under the Mistletoe, in which he played the part of a school hockey coach.

The paper predominately focuses on stories largely revolving around celebrities, sport, and news and gossip about popular television programmes, such as soap operas and reality TV shows.

Because of Belmont's role hosting big, nationally-televised races on broadcast and cable TV, its track announcers have been among the best known in the sport.

In the refectory there is a TV that shows various programmes ( Usually sport ), the volume is high, but not usually audible from the amount of noise.

The sport Supercross is tailored to the TV spectator, as result of widespread television coverage, as its target market.

* The Golf Channel, an American cable TV network focused on the sport of golf

Seven bought the rights to be one of the flagships of its pay TV sport channel, C7 Sport.

The 33 categories judged in 2008 embraced news and feature writing ; artwork, cartoons and photography ; radio and TV reporting and interviewing ; business, international and sport, indigenous affairs, social commentary and investigative journalism.

The sport is lesser-known in the United States than the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series or their mostly-domestic open-wheel racing series, the IndyCar Series, but in terms of budgets and global TV audiences F1 is bigger than both combined.

For example, several official publications of the English Football Association have the word " soccer " in the title, and two popular British television shows about the sport are Sky Sports ' Soccer Saturday and Soccer AM ( both broacast on Sky TV, an American owned corporation ).

The broadcast includes three commentators ( a retired coach, a retired player, and an analyst ) to break down the events of the featured sport, while the TV screen shows a list on the upper-left ( the list is standings, statistical leaders, etc.