| Although the precise origins of the
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| | interconnectivity between people and
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| connection between sports and
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| | nations, while in industrialized
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| international relations remain obscure,
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| | societies equipment was standardized,
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| all cultures have participated over the
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| | local and national organizations were set
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| course of history in different physical
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| | up to govern play, and a doctrine of
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| contests that fostered cultural exchange
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| | character-building declared sports to be
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| and contributed to their citizens'
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| | a necessary endeavor for men. The revival
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| political discourse. The ancient
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| | of the Olympics in 1896 and the
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| Egyptians swam, raced, wrestled, and
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| | blossoming U.S. intercollegiate athletic
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| played games with balls. The ancient
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| | system boosted many forms of amateur, or
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| Greeks held large athletic festivals,
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| | unpaid sports at the same time that
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| including the Olympic Games that drew
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| | professional sports (such as baseball,
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| athletes' attention from all over the
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| | boxing, and bicycle racing) drew large
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| ancient world. Two of the very first
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| | numbers of spectators. Sports that were
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| 'nations' to engage their athletes in
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| | traditionally played only in specific
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| sport competitions, were the Greeks and
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| | countries became by legislative act or
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| the Romans. They competed in various
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| | general acceptance, national sports, like
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| athletic events like chariot races, or
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| | baseball in the United States,
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| throwing the javelin, often relying on
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| | bullfighting in Spain and Mexico, cricket
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| the participation of animals, or on the
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| | in England, and ice hockey in
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| use of mechanical contrivances, a
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| | Canada.During the 20th century, sports
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| tradition continued into modern times in
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| | took on an increasingly international
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| sports such as dog racing, horse racing,
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| | flavor aside from the world championships
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| and shooting.During the Middle Ages, the
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| | for individual sports, like soccer's
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| cultural isolation imposed by the feudal
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| | World Cup, large-scale international
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| system and religious doctrine that
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| | meets, such as the Pan-American Games and
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| opposed the use of the body for play
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| | the Commonwealth Games, were inaugurated.
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| hampered the development of organised
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| | Sports have correspondingly become
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| sport in the Western world. For many
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| | increasingly politicized, as the boycott
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| centuries, contests between knights in
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| | of the 1980 Moscow games by Western
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| tournaments that emphasised military
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| | nations has shown, or the retaliatory
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| skill were among the only forms of
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| | boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles games by
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| approved, public sports. In the
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| | Soviet-bloc nations, an exchange brought
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| Renaissance and Enlightenment periods,
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| | on by Soviet actions in
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| games and exercise attained renewed
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| | Afghanistan.Despite the difficulties that
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| popularity. As had been the case in
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| | rose over the past, sport events are
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| ancient times, however, politics and
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| | considered today a great opportunity for
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| social class circumscribed activity.
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| | individual countries to promote their
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| Sports that required wealth or leisure,
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| | cultures, politics and trade. The new
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| such as polo or falconry, were the
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| | terms of globalization and international
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| province of the upper classes, affluent
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| | relations came into the scene of economic
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| nations, while inexpensive, massed
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| | evolution and affected sport's politics,
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| sports, such as soccer, took root among
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| | regulations, communication and society as
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| commoners and underdeveloped
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| | a whole, by using sports mass acceptance
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| countries.The late 19th century witnessed
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| | as a dominant tool for international
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| an expanding belief in sport as useful
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| | negotiations and cultural exchange.
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| recreation and as a mean of
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