Tuesday, April 5, 2011

History of sports ..........

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Structures suggest that chinese engaged in sports far from 4000 B.C. Gymanstic appeared  mainly from the chinese culture. Monuments of the pharaohs indicate that sports including swimming and fishing, were well developed and regulated thousand of years ago in Egypt. Other sports like javelin throw , high jump and wrestling also flourished from Egypt.

Development of  sports in Greece took a good shape till the time of ancient Greece and military culture. Influenced by the sports Greeks only created the Olympic games which were earlier held in the village called Peloponnesus.      

Sports have been regularly organized from the time of ancient olympics up to the present generation . Industrialization have proved to be a major cause for the greater participation in athletic activities . Professionalism further added to sports popularity as fans started following their sports idols.

 In this new millennium , sports have been growing from physical to psychological concept of competing. Electronic sports organization have become more popular.                                                                     

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