World sport

Prior to the debut of the Entertainment and Sports Network (ESPN), U.S. network television sports programming, with the exception of ABC’s Monday Night Football, was available to fans only on weekends.

The term environment cannot in itself be easily defined. Human activity has affected virtually all of the “natural” environment, leaving little of the natural world as it once was.

Endurance is a key concept of fitness that involves the cardiorespiratory, muscular, and skeletal systems of the human body.

Hiring sports celebrities to endorse both sports and nonsports products is firmly embedded as an international business practice. Companies use the popularity of athletes to sell more products or services.

Families play a pivotal role in the development of children’s sports talent. Parents are the most influential in initially exposing their children to sports and provide the greatest encouragement concerning their participation.

Also known as the “Eleven-Town Race” and the “Eleven-City Tour,” Elfstedentocht is a one-day ice skating race in which competitors skate to eleven towns in Friesland Province of the northern Netherlands.

The Eiger North Face of the Swiss Alps is at once a place of myth and of collective remembrance, veiled by the aura of danger, death, and heroism. It is a dream or a nightmare, a challenge and a trial.

Egypt, with a population of 76 million, is located in the northeastern corner of Africa at the crossroads of Africa, Asia, and Europe. Egyptian culture has been influenced by developments in all three continents.

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.”