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                                         Shot put The  shot put  is a  track and field  event involving "putting" (pushing rather than throwing) [1]  a heavy spherical  ball —the  shot —as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's competition began in 1948. Homer  mentions competitions of rock throwing by soldiers during the  Siege of Troy  but there is no record of any dead weights being thrown in Greek competitions. The first evidence for  stone-  or weight-throwing events were in the  Scottish Highlands , and date back to approximately the first century. [2]  In the 16th century  King Henry VIII  was noted for his prowess in court competitions of weight and  hammer throwing . [3] The first events resemb...
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                                          Kho kho Kho Kho  is a popular  tag  and ancient game invented in  Maharashtra ,  India . It is played by teams of 12 nominated players out of fifteen, of which nine enter the field who sit on their knees (chasing team), and 3 extra (defending team) who try to avoid being touched by members of the opposing team. It is one of the two most popular traditional  tag games  in the  Indian subcontinent , the other being  Kabaddi . [1]  Apart from the Indian subcontinent, it is also played by the  Indian community in South Africa . [2]  Kho-kho is a traditional Indian sport, a form of tag, that is one of the oldest forms of outdoor sport, dating back to prehistoric India. It is played most often by school children in India and is a competitive game. The origin of Kho-Kho is very diffi...
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                                         Volleyball Volleyball  is a  team sport  in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. [1]  It has been a part of the official program of the  Summer Olympic Games  since  Tokyo 1964 . The  complete set of rules  are extensive, [2]  but play essentially proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. [3]  The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to 3 times, but individual players may not touch the ball twice c...
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                                        Basketball Basketball  is a  team sport  in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular  court , compete with the primary objective of  shooting  a  basketball  (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a  backboard  at each end of the court) while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A  field goal  is worth two points, unless made from behind the  three-point line , when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one or more one-point  free throws . The team with the most points at the end of the game w...
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                                          Cycling Cycling , also called  biking  or  bicycling , is the use of  bicycles  for  transport ,  recreation ,  exercise  or  sport . [1]  People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", [2]  "bikers", [3]  or less commonly, as "bicyclists". [4]  Apart from two-wheeled bicycles, "cycling" also includes the riding of  unicycles ,  tricycles ,  quadracycles ,  recumbent  and similar  human-powered vehicles  (HPVs). Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century and now number approximately one billion worldwide. [5]  They are the principal means of transportation in many parts of the world. Cycling is widely regarded as a very effective and efficient mode of transportation [6] [7]  optimal for short to moderate dist...
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                                           Kabaddi Kabaddi  is a  contact   team sport , native to the  Indian subcontinent , [1]  played between two teams of seven players each. The objective of the game is for a single player on offence, referred to as a "raider", to run into the opposing team's half of a court, tag out as many of their defenders as possible, and return to their own half of the court, all without being tackled by the defenders, and in a single breath. Points are scored tagged by the raider, while the opposing team earns a point for stopping the raider. Players are taken out of the game if they are tagged or tackled, but are brought back in for each point scored by their team from a tag or tackle. It is popular in  South Asia  and other surrounding  Asian  countries. Although accounts of kabaddi appear in the h...