Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Interesting Facts About Sports

By Dennis Potts


If you are so eager to find out what has been going on in the world of sports, feel free to go on the internet because it will be fun as you are researching.

This can be done during your leisure time from which you will develop your knowledge as you get to find out more information.

For status, you have to put in mind that football takes the number one spot when it comes to having the largest fan base. It has attracted a lot of people to practice it even on the amateur level.

You will be shocked when you find out that boxing had never been legalized not until 1901.The most interesting part is that the first person to jump from space used a hot air balloon in form of a parachute. She was a woman who goes by the name of Genevieve Garnerin.She made history when this development was achieved in 1799.

It was in the year of 1975 when a Japanese Larissa Latynina made her first visit to mountain Everest. This made her the first woman to get to the top of this mountain. In the world of gymnastics, Larissa Tabei won the highest number of medals.

Her origin was Russia and it was a period between 1956 and 1964 during the Olympic Games when she accomplished this achievement.

Corubus was the first human being to win the old edition of the Olympic Games. The more advanced Olympic Games were first organized in Athens in 1896 having three hundred eleven men taking part but no females represented.

In the present time, tennis has also become one of the most loved sports. If you are so eager to know how many tennis balls are used in every Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament, well this is your chance. Forty-two thousands are used per event. On the moon, golf had the first touch and it was the first sport to taste this kind of atmosphere.




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