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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SPORTS

For hundreds of years, sports have attracted fans of bright and spectacular competitions. Someone is interested in the sports career of individual athletes, someone is interested in this or that sport, and for someone, records, bright and unusual moments or statistics are interesting.

Today we bring to your attention some interesting facts about sports. As you browse through this small collection of records and amazing moments, do not forget that sports are not only entertainment. First of all, it is an affordable means of healing and vitality!

• Brazil is the only country in the world to have taken part in all the World Cup.


• The goalkeeper hockey mask was first used in 1936 by Japanese goalkeeper Tanaka Hoima at the games in Berlin.


• Mike Tyson played 51 matches in the professional ring. He finished 21 of them (40.8%) with a knockout in the first round.


• One of the most successful Formula 1 drivers Fernando Alonso got behind the wheel of a kart at the age of three.


• After hitting by a professional, a volleyball ball develops a speed of up to 130 km / h, and a hockey puck - up to 160.


• The Vatican national football team in the entire history of its existence has played only one international match - with the national team of Monaco, the score is 0: 0.


• Chinese center Song Mingming is the tallest basketball player in the world. He is 236 cm tall and weighs 152 kg.


• Each soccer ball consists of 32 slats (20 white hexagons and 12 black pentagons).


• Gambit - a chess term, comes from the Italian phrase dare il gambetto - to trip.


• Tug of war from 1900 to 1920 was an Olympic discipline.


• The oldest Olympic medalist is Swede Oscar Svan. In 1920, at the age of 72, he took 2nd place in the shooting competition at the Swedish Olympics.


• Only three countries - Great Britain, France and Switzerland - took part in all the Olympics.


• The weight of the heaviest sumo wrestler in the world - world champion Emanuel Jabrauch - is 402 kilograms with an increase of 203 centimeters.