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    Soccer originated over 2,000 years ago in ancient China and was further developed in England in the 19th century. Key events included England establishing the first uniform rules and the formation of FIFA in 1913. Some of the greatest players include Pele, Lev Yashin, and Marco Van Basten. Track and field is one of the oldest sports, originating with the ancient Greeks. It was revived in the 19th century in England and spread internationally. The Amateur Athletic Union was formed in the U.S. in 1887 to govern the sport. Women's participation has grown since the 1920s with the formation of international women's athletic federations.

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    Soccer originated over 2,000 years ago in ancient China and was further developed in England in the 19th century. Key events included England establishing the first uniform rules and the formation of FIFA in 1913. Some of the greatest players include Pele, Lev Yashin, and Marco Van Basten. Track and field is one of the oldest sports, originating with the ancient Greeks. It was revived in the 19th century in England and spread internationally. The Amateur Athletic Union was formed in the U.S. in 1887 to govern the sport. Women's participation has grown since the 1920s with the formation of international women's athletic federations.

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    Soccer originated over 2,000 years ago in ancient China and was further developed in England in the 19th century. Key events included England establishing the first uniform rules and the formation of FIFA in 1913. Some of the greatest players include Pele, Lev Yashin, and Marco Van Basten. Track and field is one of the oldest sports, originating with the ancient Greeks. It was revived in the 19th century in England and spread internationally. The Amateur Athletic Union was formed in the U.S. in 1887 to govern the sport. Women's participation has grown since the 1920s with the formation of international women's athletic federations.

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    Assignment #-1 in PE

    Tittle: "Research at least 2 individual sports with thier History"

    Soccer

    More than 240 million people around the world play soccer regularly according to the Federation
    Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The game has evolved from the sport of kicking a
    rudimentary animal-hide ball around into the World Cup sport it is today.

    Records trace the history of soccer back more than 2,000 years ago to ancient China. Greece,
    Rome, and parts of Central America also claim to have started the sport; but it was England that
    transitioned soccer, or what the British and many other people around the world call “football,”
    into the game we know today. The English are credited with recording the first uniform rules for
    the sport, including forbidding tripping opponents and touching the ball with hands.

    As the sport developed, more rules were implemented and more historical landmarks were set.
    For example, the penalty kick was introduced in 1891. FIFA became a member of the
    International Football Association Board of Great Britain in 1913. Red and yellow cards were
    introduced during the 1970 World Cup finals. More recent major changes include goalkeepers
    being banned from handling deliberate back passes in 1992 and tackles from behind becoming
    red-card penalties in 1998.

    Some of the top players throughout history include Pele (Edson Arantes Do Nascimento) from
    Brazil, who scored six goals in the 1958 World Cup and helped Brazil claim its first title; Lev
    Yashin from Russia, who claimed to have saved more than 150 penalty shots during his
    outstanding goal-tending career; and Marco Van Basten from Holland, who won several very
    prestigious soccer awards during one year alone. There are many debates over who the
    greatest soccer players are of all time; but players like Zinedine Zidane, Diego Maradona,
    Michel Platini, Lionel Messi, and Roberto Baggio make almost every list.

    Track and Field

    Track and field is one of the oldest of sports. Athletic contests were often held in conjunction
    with religious festivals, as with the Olympic Games of ancient Greece. For 11 centuries, starting
    in 776 B.C., these affairs — for men only — were enormously popular and prestigious events.
    The Romans continued the Olympic tradition until the time of the Emperor Theodosius I, a
    Christian, who banned the Games in A.D. 394. During the Middle Ages, except for a short-lived
    revival in 12th-century England, organized track and field all but disappeared. The true
    development of track and field as a modern sport started in England during the 19th century.
    English public school and university students gave the sport impetus through their interclass
    meets, or meetings as they are still called in Britain, and in 1849 the Royal Military Academy at
    Sandhurst held the first organized track and field meet of modern times.
    Not until the 1860s, however, did the sport flourish. In 1866 the first English championships
    were held by the newly formed Amateur Athletic Club, which opened the competition to all
    "gentlemen amateurs" specifically, athletes who received no financial compensation for their
    efforts. This code has lasted to the present day and is the basis of the rules governing the sport.
    The Amateur Athletic Club gave way to the Amateur Athletic Association in 1880, which has
    conducted the annual national championships since that date. Although meets were held on the
    North American continent as early as 1839, track and field first gained popularity in the late
    1860s, after the formation of the New York Athletic Club in 1868. The Amateur Athletic Union of
    the United States (AAU), an association of track and field clubs, was formed in 1887 and has
    governed the sport in the United States since then.

    In 1896 the first modern Olympic Games were staged. Although initially of limited appeal, the
    Olympics captured the imagination of athletes and grew steadily, making track and field an
    international sport for the first time. In 1913 the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF)
    was formed by representatives from 16 countries. The IAAF was charged with establishing
    standard rules for the sport, approving world records, and ensuring that the amateur code was
    adhered to; it continues to carry out these duties today.

    The participation of women in track and field is a relatively recent development. In 1921
    representatives from six countries formed an athletic federation for women, which merged with
    the IAAF in 1936. Participation by women has grown rapidly in many countries in recent years,
    particularly in the United States, where many schools have added women's track and field to
    their athletic programs.

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