National sport

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A national sport is a sport that is considered particularly important and typical by a state or a certain region. It often has a long tradition and contributes to national identity .

Some national sports are set as such by governments. Not all countries have official national sports, which is why it is often controversial which sport can be called this and the names in the media differ from each other. There are regionally different national sports especially when a state is inhabited by several ethnic groups who want to have their own identity as a nation.

In colloquial language, the term is also used simply for particularly popular sports, an example being football in many countries. The term national sport overlaps with the term popular sport . A popular sport is practiced by a large number of residents (the former "common people ").

Many national sports are by no means restricted to a single country. This is especially the case when colonial powers or other occupiers export a certain sport that is particularly popular in the country of origin to other countries (e.g. hockey in Pakistan ).

Examples

Official national sports

There is an official national sport in the following countries. This does not necessarily have to be the most popular sport, it can also have a particularly important tradition.

Unofficial national sports

Although there is no official national sport in the following countries, certain sports are repeatedly cited as national sports in the media. The difference to normal popular sports is the importance they have nationally.

Popular sports

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Where does this arbitrary number of states come from in the various sports?

In numerous countries there are sports that dominate reporting and operations, but do not have the status of a national sport.

The best example is football , which has the status of the most popular sport in more than 120 countries. This includes not only the internationally successful so-called football superpowers, but also other important and populous states such as Indonesia .

Other sports that dominate operations in several countries are cricket (18 states including India , Pakistan and Bangladesh ), baseball (eight states including Japan , Venezuela and Taiwan ), rugby union (five states including New Zealand ), basketball ( Philippines , Lithuania ), ice hockey (in seven countries, Russia , the Czech Republic , Sweden , Switzerland , Slovakia , Latvia and Finland ) and kickboxing ( Cambodia and Laos ).

The dominant sports in individual countries are alpine skiing ( Austria ), American football (USA), Australian football ( Nauru ), archery ( Bhutan ), horse racing ( Hong Kong ), wrestling ( Mongolia ), rugby league ( Papua New Guinea ) and table tennis ( People's Republic of China ).

Web links

Wiktionary: National sport  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Decree declaring Pato a national sport
  2. ↑ Source: Bangladesh.com: The Unique Sport of Kabaddi
  3. ↑ Description of the Chilean national symbols at icarito.cl ( Memento from July 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
  4. ↑ National Sports of Canada Act ( Memento of June 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Tagus declared a national sport by Congress. ( Memento of October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) PDF (Spanish) of September 4, 2000 Accessed on December 2, 2012
  6. ↑ Cabinet approves categorization of sports codes. Namibia Press Agency, August 2, 2018.
  7. ↑ Pakistan Page ( Memento from October 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ German Sambo Association
  9. ^ Afghan Embassy in Australia
  10. ↑ India has no national sport from oneindia.in (English). Accessed December 2, 2012
  11. ^ Sports in Dublin
  12. ↑ Cubasports.com ( Memento of February 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ StarCraft in Korea ( Memento from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on ohinternet.com (English). Accessed December 2, 2012
  14. ^ Martial arts and martial arts outside of Japan ( Memento June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed December 2, 2012
  15. ↑ Muay Thai national sport of Thailand ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from little-thailand.de, accessed on December 2, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.little-thailand.de
  16. ↑ Sepak Takraw National Sport in Thailand ( Memento from August 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) from thailandinformation.de, accessed on December 2, 2012
  17. ↑ Exemplary analysis: John P. Rossi: The National Game: Baseball and American Culture