Posted on 09/11/2019 1:06:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Today we are going to take a look at the top 10 most popular sports in the world. But before we do that it is important to know the importance of sports and criteria that should be used to make a ranking of sports.
Sports play an important role in our lives. From early childhood years where we take sports very seriously to the later years in life where we consider it as a hobby, fitness ritual, and sometimes even a profession. Today in every part of the world some sport is passionately followed. People take their sporting heroes as their role models and often have an emotional attachment with their favourite sports stars and sports teams. People in different regions of the world have different favourite sports. This makes ranking sports quite a challenging and difficult job. This is exactly why it is hard to ascertain the reliability and accuracy of different sports lists out there.
Here, it is important to know exactly what do we mean by most popular sports. The word “popular” could mean “most-watched sports,” “most played sports,” or “most revenue-generating sports”. But in all honesty, it would be unfair to rank the sports by popularity, if we take just one or two criteria. Therefore, we have decided to use 15 different criteria in order to rank the most popular sports in the world.
Criteria Used for Ranking:
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Dam right! Training camp is around the corner,
The dullards of the world like soccer.
Yes and they make Soccer rioters look tame. On one occasion the Indian team was losing so the crowd burnt down the stadium.
Believe it or not there are two cricket leagues on Long island !
My point was only that the Chinese can’t like basketball that much, because they suck at it. Any notion it was because they’re short is invalid.
Thanks! I’ve seen it before but I put it on my list again. Pretty cool how sports can bring a town together.
Gotcha, thanks for the correction.
Field Hockey is the number one girls and women’s team sport in US and Canadian high schools and colleges. International men’s field hockey is huge.
“Cricket is awesome.”
Check out a movie called “Lagaan”. You’ve got to be able to handle Bollywood conventions (like people breaking into totally-stylized singing and dancing for no good reason), but you can only fully appreciate the denouement if you know some of the subtleties of the game.
I actually got to play a pick-up game once - a real hoot. They tried to put me at silly-mid-on - would have none of it.
“...the virtually worthless skill of foot/eye coordination”.
It taught me the skill of kicking smart mouths in the gonads while looking them straight in the eye. Worthless?
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