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A sport is a physical activity or skill carried out under a publicly agreed set of rules, and with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of skill, or some combination of these. The difference of purpose is what characterises sport, combined with the notion of individual (or team) skill or prowess.

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Did you know ...

• ...that Bridgett Riley lost her contact lenses in the fifth round of a boxing match against Theresa Arnold on September 19, 1996, leading to her first ever defeat?
• ... that the game Monopoly (pictured) was initially rejected by both Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers?
• ...that the earliest record of Gaelic handball is the 1527 town statutes of Galway, Ireland, which forbade the playing of ball games against the walls?
• ...that the 2007 Fiesta Bowl ended on a Statue of Liberty play from Jared Zabransky to Ian Johnson, giving the Boise State Broncos the winning two-point conversion?
• ... that the first reference to chess in literature appears in India about 500 BC in Brahmajala Sutta in Digha Nikaya?
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