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- Sport_in_the_United_Kingdom abstract "The United Kingdom has given birth to a range of major international sports including: association football, baseball, rugby (union and league), cricket, golf, tennis, table tennis, badminton, squash, rounders, hockey, boxing, snooker, billiards and curling.This has meant that in the infancy of many sports, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland formed among the earliest separate governing bodies, national teams and domestic league competitions. After 1922 some sports formed separate bodies for Northern Ireland though some continued to be organised on an All-Island basis.As a result, notably in certain teams sports such as association football and Rugby, but also in the multi-sport Commonwealth Games, international sporting events are contested not by a team representing the United Kingdom, but by teams representing the separate "home nations". At Olympic level, however, the United Kingdom is represented by a single national organising committee the British Olympic Association, and competes as Great Britain and Northern Ireland (although some Northern Ireland athletes are eligible for, and compete on behalf of, Ireland).For more information on most sports you may wish, therefore, to consider reading the Sport in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland articles.Major individual sports include athletics, golf, motorsport, and horseracing. Tennis is the highest profile sport for the two weeks of the Wimbledon Championships, but otherwise struggles to hold its own in the country of its birth. Many other sports are also played and followed to a lesser degree. There is much debate over which sport has the most active participants with swimming, athletics, cycling all found to have wider active participation than association football in the 2010 Sport England Active People survey.".
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- Sport_in_the_United_Kingdom wikiPageExternalLink www.afpe.org.uk.
- Sport_in_the_United_Kingdom wikiPageExternalLink www.footballgroundguide.co.uk.
- Sport_in_the_United_Kingdom wikiPageExternalLink www.scottishgroundguide.co.uk.
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- Sport_in_the_United_Kingdom comment "The United Kingdom has given birth to a range of major international sports including: association football, baseball, rugby (union and league), cricket, golf, tennis, table tennis, badminton, squash, rounders, hockey, boxing, snooker, billiards and curling.This has meant that in the infancy of many sports, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland formed among the earliest separate governing bodies, national teams and domestic league competitions.".
- Sport_in_the_United_Kingdom label "Deporte en el Reino Unido".
- Sport_in_the_United_Kingdom label "Sport im Vereinigten Königreich".
- Sport_in_the_United_Kingdom label "Sport in the United Kingdom".
- Sport_in_the_United_Kingdom label "Спорт в Великобритании".
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- Sport_in_the_United_Kingdom sameAs Deporte_en_el_Reino_Unido.
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- Sport_in_the_United_Kingdom depiction Mo_Farah_5_000_m_Daegu_2011.jpg.
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