hıstory of sports

Match the Description of Sport with the sport / event. Golf The first of these festivals, which were part of a religious festival to honour Zeus, was held in 776 BCE. Ice-hockey Canada’s official summer game. First played by the First Nations in the 1600s. Volleyball The Chinese played a form of this game more than 3000 years ago. Basketball A Scottish game played with rocks dating back to 1511. First Olympic Games Game invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan in Massachusetts, USA. Curling Originated around 1800 in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada. Weight Lifting Games held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. Lacrosse This sport, in some form, probably dates to prehistoric times. Most likely, someone lifted a heavy rock and then challenged someone else to try it. Soccer Developed in the 1960s. The first piece of equipment used was called the Snurfer. Triathlon Invented by Canadian James Naismith in 1891. Snowboarding The first game was played in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1456. Speed skating Cave drawings of this sport have been found, dating back to 3000 BCE, in the (Chinese) Sumero-Akkadian civilization. Wrestling Dates back over 1000 years, to the canals and waterways of Scandinavia and the Netherlands. First modern- day Olympic Games Invented in the early 1970s by the San Diego Track Club. Classify each of the following activities as free play, game play or sport. Free Play Skipping Rope Skipping Stones Throwing Ball Game Play Bowling Street Hockey Chess Sport Archery Cricket Badminton