What are the popular sports nowadays?

1. Soccer

Soccer is an ancient sport with a long history. The earliest

Originally from China's ancient ball game "Cuju", and later through the Arabs to Europe, developed into modern soccer. Therefore, the hometown of soccer is China. Soccer has: the essence of the sport, popularization, unpredictability

sex, handsome, freedom, controversy and other characteristics. Soccer has such a great charm not only because it breeds rich connotation, but also related to the characteristics of soccer. Soccer has always been the world's No.1

sport, and it is impossible for any sport to surpass soccer!

2. F1

F1 logo F1, Chinese name for "Formula 1 Championship", is the English Formula 1 grand Prix for short, the current official full name of this competition "FIA Formula 1 World Championship". Championship" Formula 1 World Championship. Formula 1 car speed up to 406 km / h (theoretical limit), 370 km / h (2004) or more, the average speed is 200-250 km / h. F1 engine roar all over the world's continents, the impact of this sport in the world has always been among the top, many people are crazy about it, F1 is a deserved! F1 is the second most popular sport in the world!

3. Golf

The first involved in playing golf is the Scottish north coast soldiers,

Later gradually aroused the court aristocracy and the folk of young people's keen interest, and eventually became a traditional project in Scotland. It then spread to England. In the late nineteenth century, it spread to America, Australia and South Africa, and in the twentieth century to Asia. Because playing

Golf was first prevalent in the court aristocracy, coupled with golf course equipment is expensive, so there is a "nobleman's sport" of the name. Although not everyone has direct access to the game, golf has been ranked among the top 3 sports in the world since 2002.

4. Tennis

Tennis is a beautiful and intense sport, the origin and

development of tennis can be summarized in four sentences: was conceived in France, was born in the United Kingdom, began to popularize and form the culmination of the United States, and is now prevalent all over the world, is known as the world's second largest ball game. The development of tennis has such several characteristics: one

is popularity; the second is the high level, fierce competition; three is with the reform of equipment, especially the development of racket, tennis will be towards the power, speed type direction; four is with the tennis various competitions continue to increase the prize money, the tennis occupation

industrialization, commercialization will be more and more high degree. Tennis will win more and more enthusiasts and spectators.

5. Rugby

Rugby originated in England and was originally known as Rugby soccer. Because of its

spherical shape is very much like an olive, in China that is known as "rugby", Rugby is actually the name of a small town in England, in this town there is a public school called Rugby, that is the birthplace of rugby. Since then, this sport has become popular in Europe and the world, and the United States created the American football league NFL, which has a lot of fans. Whether it is jersey or product sales or ratings, the NFL is the United States of America, other sports leagues can not be compared

, the NFL is a deserved American sports No.1.

6. Baseball Baseball is a bat batting ball as the main characteristics of the collective, against

resistant ball sports program. It is more widely carried out in the international community, the impact is greater, known as "the combination of competition and wisdom". In the United States, Japan, especially prevalent, known as the "national ball". Baseball in Europe, has

26 countries to carry out. "The European Amateur Baseball Federation (EABF) has 11 members, including Italy. According to the statistics of the Federation in 1978, there were about 50,000 athletes participating in baseball games and 326 stadiums, and international competitions such as the Mediterranean Cup and the World Baseball Championships have been held.

7. Swimming

Modern swimming originated in the U.K. In the 17th century and 60's, many areas in the U.K. were quite active in swimming activities. It spread to France in the early 18th century and then became a popular sport in Europe. Swimming is one of the most massively popular sports in the world, with people from almost all parts of the world being exposed to the sport, and so swimming has remained one of the most influential sports.

8. Professional boxing

Professional boxing is divided into 17 levels, 17 levels can be categorized

categorized into seven: heavyweight, middleweight, lightweight, featherweight, bantamweight, flyweight, strawweight, the latter three have less impact on the champion of the fame is not big, we are familiar with the champion of the boxer, almost all of them come from the first four items. Professional boxing

Hitting is a comprehensive embodiment of power and violent aesthetics, although the status of professional boxing in the world has declined in recent years, but has always always maintained the status of the world's top ten.