World sport

Economics has a profound influence on the world of sport. This influence is especially felt in the most popular spectator sports where the players are paid professionals and the teams are firms.

The German Democratic Republic (GDR), or Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), had about 17 million inhabitants. East Germany in the 1980s ranked first in the world in winter sports and achieved the number three ranking in the Summer Olympics.

Duathlon, formerly known as biathlon, is a race including two disciplines, typically biking and running. Unlike other multisport events, like the pentathlon and decathlon, disciplines in a duathlon are done without any time breaks, and athletes must quickly transition from one event to the other.

The Drake Group is a national coalition of faculty members dedicated to defending academic integrity in the face of the burgeoning college sports industry by lobbying for proposals that will enable faculties to provide college athletes with access to an education.

Diving requires a person to jump, perform acrobatics, and land either feet first or head first in water. Diving events include the 10-meter platform, 3-meter springboard, and synchronized platform and springboard events.

Disordered eating is a spectrum of attitudes and behaviors such as a preoccupation with weight and shape, insufficient energy availability, and dieting as well as binging, vomiting, and abusing diuretics, laxatives, diet pills, and exercise.

Today, images of athletes with a disability are becoming more commonplace. Stories appear in the sports section (not just the human interest section). Athletes with a disability earn money for competing and have sponsors for their athletic endeavors.

The term diet actually means those things that are customarily eaten. However, the meaning of “diet” has changed over the years, and now the common perception of a diet is of a food regime designed for losing weight.

Denmark is a small Scandinavian country with approximately 5 million inhabitants. Its government consists of a monarchy; representative democracy, with a parliament; and 275 self-governing regions.

Deaflympics (formerly known as Deaf World Games,World Games for the Deaf, and International Silent Games) is an international multisport competition held every four years for elite deaf and hard of hearing athletes.

The Davis Cup, technically the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Team Championship for men, is the largest annual international tennis team competition.

Darts is one of the oldest established English pub games that, since the late 1970s, has become one of the most popular indoor sports in the world. Darts has been considered as a derivative of javelins, crossbow bolts, and archery.

The history of ballroom dancing competitions can be traced to pre–World War I days, and its popularity has increased over the years, most dramatically in the 1990s. DanceSport, the competitive version of ballroom dancing, requires athletic skills, combined with required techniques, floorcraft, and artistic interpretation, to produce a disciplined dance performance.

Humans have a fundamental desire for regular rhythmic movement. Whether this desire takes the form of athletics, activities of daily living, or dance, the human body is the essential instrument for each.

Asmall, strategically located country in Central Europe with a population of 10 million, the Czech Republic came into existence in 1993, the result of political changes that began with the disintegration of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.

Cycling is an on-road and off-road sport with variations in terrain, slope, distance, and type of bicycle affecting its outcome.

Curling is a team sport played on a long, narrow sheet of ice. It incorporates the basic principles of lawn bowling or horseshoes. Each of four members of a team has a counterpart on an opposing team, and in alternating fashion the members of the teams throw (slide) objects toward a target.

Cultural studies is the general study of culture, the study of intercultural relations, and the anthropological study of culture.

The largest island of the West Indies, Cuba is located 200 kilometers south of Florida and 100 kilometers west of Haiti.The capital city, Havana (with an estimated population of 2.3 million in 2003), is located on Cuba’s northwest coast.

Aform of competitive running, cross-country involves racing over outdoor courses of differential lengths and terrains, always “off-road.”

The modern sport of croquet—highly competitive but family oriented—originated in France during the early nineteenth century and was played with a unique mallet. This mallet, in its French peasant form, had a broomstick as a handle.The word croquet is derived from the French word croc, meaning “something shaped like a hook or a crook.”

The first attempt to create a world championship of cricket occurred in 1912 when Australia, England, and South Africa played a triangular tournament in England in the longer form of the game,Test cricket.

 Cricket, a bat-and-ball game, has long been regarded as the archetypal English game that became popular in British Commonwealth countries.The core rules of the game were formulated in the eighteenth century by wealthy landowners.

 Country clubs are leisure establishments that exist in most communities in North America and across the globe.They provide sports and community for their members. The term country club conjures images of privilege, separation, elitism, and difference.

 Cooperation occurs when people work or play together to accomplish shared goals. Cooperation may seem an ironic entry in an encyclopedia of sport because most definitions of sport emphasize competition between opposing groups.

Competitive balance describes the degree of uncertainty about the outcome of sporting events. Economists posit that uncertainty about the outcome of sporting events plays an important role in determining fans’ interest in these events. In order to test this theory, some measure of the degree of uncertainty inherent in sporting events must be developed.

 Competition occurs in social relationships in which comparisons of performances are made according to shared standards, such that performances can be objectively evaluated and ranked.

 “Community” is one of the most common and multivalent concepts in the social sciences. At one end of the spectrum, community can refer to small, close-knit groups in which individuals have much in common, know each other intimately, and interact regularly.