About Sports & Athletes

This is the place where anything sporty goes, for the sports fan and the participant. Go on, be a good sport and check out the following pages about your favorite sport. See also the comprehensive information under Sport Information Resources.

Sports Lists

• List of All Sports — information about nearly 1000 different sports from around the world.
• Unusual Sports — the wonderful world of weird and unusual sporting competitions.
• Team Sports — list of sports that are solely for team players.
• National Sports — significant sports for each country of the world.
• Hybrid Sports — sports created by combining two or more sports.
• Fictional Sports — list of sports created for books, TV and movies.
• Questionable Sports — are these really sports?
• Extinct Sports — sports that are no longer played.
• New Sports — newly invented sports.
• Sport Categories — grouping sports into more manageable lists.

About Sports People

• Athlete Profiles — Profiles of athletes from around the world.
• Good Sports — Sporting Heroes.
• Athletes go Head 2 Head.

Sport Information

• Encyclopedia of Sports — a collection of ALL the sports of the world
• Quotes — list of sports and sport science quotations.
• History of Sports
• Sporting Polls — have your say.
• Sporting Records
• The Rules of Sport — rules of many sports.
• Jobs in Sport
• ... more

World of Sport

• Major Sporting Events around the world.
• Country List — details of sports, events and sports people related to each country.
• World Sporting Lists — top lists of the biggest and best (and smallest and worst!) in the world of sport.
• World Sports Timeline — significant events in the world of sport since the 1800s.
• Sport Names in Other Languages
• ... more

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