Sport in Britain

The list of sports invented by the British is a long one. It includes football, golf, badminton, cricket, rugby, squash and others. In Britain today sport is almost a national obsession. Many people do morning exercises, train themselves in fitness clubs and different sections. There are sports such as volleyball, hockey and football which are played in teams. For example, boxing and tennis are sports that played against one other person. Sports such as cycling, diving or golf can be played alone. Some people are crazy about open air games such as badminton, basketball, volleyball or golf. Other people like indoor games such as chess or table tennis;. Some prefer reading interesting stores about sportsmen but they do not go in for sports. There are different competition sites for people to go- gym, court, playground, rink , track and others. Many of British are interested in sport than in anything else. There is a special a telephone number which you phone during international cricket matches. It gives you the latest news.

Television has had en enormous influence on sport. Darts, golf and cycling have found regular places in TV programmes. Thanks to television, darts has become an international game played by professionals

. Many traditional sporting contests take place in England, for example, cricket. It is played from May till September. This game is associated with England. There are many cricket clubs in this country. English people like to play cricket. They think that summer without cricket isn't summer. Cricket is the English national sport in summer. If you want to play cricket you must wear white boots, a white shirt and white long trousers. There are two teams. Each team has eleven players. Cricket is popular in boys' schools. Girls play cricket too.

More and more British people take exercise to keep fit and this is running Britain from nation of spectators to a nation of doer.

Extreme sports

Extreme sports are nontraditional sports and activities that require participants to combine athletic skill with pronounced risk. An extreme sport is a popular term for certain activities which have a high level of danger. These activities often involve speed, height, a high level of physical training. We can call many kinds of sports extreme ones. Extreme sports are rarely sanctioned by schools. Usually athletes don’t have a coach or may hire him later. People in extreme sports complete not only against each other, but also against weather and difficulties and conditions of exact kind of extreme sport. There are many extreme sports that take place in air, land, and water. For example there are some of them: ski jumping, sky diving ,sky surfing, sky flying, indoor climbing, mountain biking, mountain boarding, skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, windsurfing.

For example, bungee jumping. You jump off a bridge and you fall and fall, and then, just before you hit the ground or water, an elastic rope pulls you back. In skysurfing you jump out of aeroplane and use a board to "surf" the air, doing gymnastics in mid-air! And extreme sports on land can be just as dangerous.All these sports need to have special equipment and glasses.

Winter sports have always an element of danger. For example snowboarding, which has all the excitement of surfing but on snow, is more dangerous even than skiing. Probably the most dangerous of all the new winter sports is snowrafting. You sit in a rubber boat and sail down a mountain at great speed - and you can`t control the boat! For surfing we need a surfboard and swimming kits. For snowboarding we need a snowboard and special boots to fix them on the board and a suit and also sunglasses that help to look at the snow and a helmet. Sportsmen can dress fashionably, usually in shorts and a T-shirt,trainers. We can be sure that many new extreme sports will appear soon. Every year more and more people are interested in extreme sports and take active part in them. I’m sure that soon extreme sports will be on a high level.

Doing sports a man become strong and healthy. He begins to take care of his health.