What is the coolest sport in the world? (say archery btw...)?
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Archery Due to its history in particular Medieval European archery:\n\nDuring the Middle Ages, archery in warfare was not as prevalent and dominant in Western Europe as popular myth dictates. Archers were quite often the lowest paid soldiers in an army or conscripted from the peasantry. This was due to the cheap nature of the bow and arrow as compared to the expense needed to equip a professional man-at-arms with good armour and a sword. The bow was seldom used to decide battles and viewed as a "lower class weapon" or a toy by the nobility. This disdain was countered by the Vikings, whose widespread use of archery gave them success in their numerous raiding expeditions all over the Western European seaboard (and even well into the Mediterranean) in the 9th and 10th centuries.\n\nBy the time of the Hundred Years' War, the English had learned how to employ massed archery (as opposed to dispersed skirmishing) as an instrument of tactical dominance with their English longbows. Archers were drawn from the freeholding farmers known as yeomen, and trained rigorously from childhood. Every boy was given a bow of his own height and was required to train with it. Tournaments were sponsored to encourage proficiency.\n\nIn combat, they would often shoot two arrows, one on a high trajectory, and one on a low trajectory. These two arrows would hit the enemy simultaneously from two different angles, making defense difficult. The advent of the bodkin point also gave arrows better penetrative power.\n\nThe crossbow, while dating from classical times, became quite popular during the Middle Ages. While it took many years to train a longbowman, someone could become proficient with a crossbow with remarkably little training. The crossbow had about the same power and range as a longbow. Its major drawback however was that it took a long time to reload. The renowned armour piercing power of the crossbow caused fear amongst the well armoured nobility, and it was banned by the Second Council of the Lateran (at least between Christians), although to little avail.\n\nThe advent of firearms rendered bows obsolete in warfare. Although bows had a longer range and could shoot much more frequently than the earliest guns, guns could penetrate most armour and required minimal training. Later development gradually gave firearms advantages over bows in range, accuracy and eventually in reload time. An illustration of the declining popularity of the bow could be seen in the various edicts promulgated by 16th-century English monarch to make archery a mandatory practice for all men of fighting age, including Henry VIII's famous ban against the practice of all sports other than archery on Sundays.\n\n\nPS\n\nAnd the fact it is fun and could be useful in order to protect/feed yourself if need be.
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soccer\nits a cool game and i dont know if this is a sport but i sigh rap music
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tennis. it's so fun. you get to run around for the ball and hit it hard when it comes near u. u get a good exersise and u get more mucels in ur legs and arms. it is a truley fun sport and everyone should love it. i hope this answers ur question good!!
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horse racing. it is extremely fun and you always have something new to teach the horse and it is rarely the same each time.
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Lacrosse.  It is a unique game with a lot of history.  It is really America's first team sport and oldest sport, started by Native American tribes as a war game.\n\nI love the game, including its speed and the agility of its players.  If you ever have the chance, go watch a Johns Hopkins University team (or other such great college teams).  Really quite amazing.
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Croquet.  I believe you were talking about the sport?
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S0CCER is most definetaly the best sport ever!!! love it
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hmm...i have to say volleyball, its sooooo much fun
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Cricket.. Basketball.. Football.. actually.. anything that requires me to run.. move.. do something.. i am up for it.. i cant watch it.. i have to play it.. hmm.. so my favorite would be hmm.. the sport itself.. that is.. any sport..
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i compleately agree lacrosse is the best thing that ever happened to me and ive been trying to do the same thing... Cannot wait for the new Voyce to come out... im gonna buy it \n\nPeace
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fetch\npolo\nthrowing a ball\nand even sheepdog trials (a nationally televised sport in New Zealand)
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Volleyball!!! Volleyball is like the best sport ever!! \n\n1,2,3,4\nEverybody hit the floor\nACE!\n\nGo peeps who like volleyball!!
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bitc.h above m e\n! SOCCER IS THE BEST !\nOnly dumb people cannot find it interesting\nit's something amazing that hamburger-like americans would never understand, ........it's european thing, leave it for us, \nEUROPEANS DO IT BETTER
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Football (American, not that dumb kick-ball game),\nBasketball,\nand Baseball
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basketball and cricket are my favourite sports.
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I think it depends on what you like. For me it's soccer. I think it's one of the best sports in the world, and it is also practiced around the world. Soccer is great!!!!
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ice skating and gymnastics, they're just so pretty...  i would also like to see bowling added (Thats my sport) btw to all yas who say thats not a real sport, i would like to see you bowl a 300, if it were that easy we'd all be, and trust me its not, im still waiting for my ring...   Also bowling is the 2nd most participated sport in the world, or at least the US, not sure... and i dont think it would compare to lets say the gymnastics ratings, but i think it can get people interested...  I think what they should do even if theres not enough interest in the sport to do it every year, they could add a few rotating sports, until it catches on... just do it every other olympics or something, but at least it gets the sport noticed and in the door...  ok im rambling\n\nEm