Sport in Great Britain Stepanenko Valery 10a

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Cricket and others kinds of sports

part of life in Great Britain. Most people in Great

Britain are real sport-lovers. Even if they don't go in for sport, they like to talk about it. Perhaps, you didn't know, but many kinds of sport have taken the origin in Great Britain. Cricket, football, rugby, tennis, table tennis, badminton, squash, canoeing and snooker were invented in Britain.

their leisure time to outdoor and indoor games: athletic, mountain

climbing, boxing and other sports.

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football, cricket, and hockey, and games in which individuals or

couples try their skill, for example golf. The number of spectators shows that the most popular of the team game is football and cricket, and the most popular individual game is lawn-tennis.

Football

It is the most popular team game in

Britain. It is played in most of the schools, and there are thousands of amateur teams for young men in all parts of the country. But for most of the public football is a professional game which is watched on saturday afternoons at the stadium.

Professional football is a big business. Every large town has one or more professional clubs.

A lot of boys love this game

often played in schools, colleges, universities and by club teams

all over the country. Summer isn’t summer without cricket. 

it.

is horseracing. A lot of people are interested in the

races and risk money on the horse, which they think will win. 

even races for donkeys.

The innumerable tennis courts of Britain are occupied by people

between the ages of 16 and 60 . Indeed sport in one form or another is an essential part of daily life in Britain