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Panathenaic amphora, Kleophrades painter, circa 500 BC, Louvre museum. A runner gives a friendly tap on the shoulder to a wheelchair racer during the Marathon International de Paris in 2014. 100m race record holder Usain Bolt and other runners, Moscow, 2013.

• Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators.
• We certainly need to figure out better answers for trans athletes and people like Caster Semenya, who, because she has differences of sexual development, is allowed to compete in the 5K but not the 800-meter race.
• My comparatively unathletic brother would get beaten by thousands of women in a mile-long race.
• When looking at elite runners—whether sprinting 100 meters or racing many miles—once athletes hit physical maturity, the best men have anywhere from a 9

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How should schools and clubs handle a young female athlete who wants to play football even though there’s no girls’ team? Should we get rid of sex-based divisions in sports like shooting, where the performance gap is minimal? We certainly need to figure out better answers for trans athletes and people like Caster Semenya, who, because she has differences of sexual development, is allowed to compete in the 5K but not the 800-meter race. Per Henrik Ling in Sweden elaborated systems of gymnastic exercise that were eventually adopted by school systems in Britain, the United States, and Japan. These noncompetitive alternatives to modern sports also flourished in eastern Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among repressed ethnic peoples such as the Poles and Czechs, gymnastics became almost a way of life.

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There is no high-quality evidence that shows the effectiveness of interventions to increase sports participation of the community in sports such as mass media campaigns, educational sessions, and policy changes. There is also no high-quality studies that investigate the effect of such interventions in promoting healthy behavior change in the community. Sport can be undertaken on an amateur, professional or semi-professional basis, depending on whether participants are incentivised for participation .

• Tua Tagovailoa went off on a stretcher and straight to hospital with head and neck injuries after recoiling in pain and needing lengthy treatment from a heavy tackle in the game with his Miami Dolphins and the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday night.
• The game was painted by miniaturists and celebrated by Persian poets such as Ferdowsī (c. 935–c. 1020) and Ḥāfeẓ (1325/26–1389/90).
• Until recently the GAA continued to ban the playing of football and rugby union at Gaelic venues.

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