what is the oldest sports on earth?
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All of these people are incorrect with their answers and they don’t even know it. \n\nThe word 'sport' has changed from its original definition to mean something rather different. It was originally used to describe a team event where participants had to overcome a common goal. 'Sports' in the tradition sense of the word were invented by the British to help train their youth in schools to become officers and leaders headed for the colonies. Original sports were rugby, cricket, football (soccer) etc.\n\nAnyway the definition and understanding of the word ‘sport’ has since changed to encompass activities such as games, athletics, gymnastics, individual events etc.\n\nAnd the goal of modern sports is slightly different. The emphasis now is on winning and less on teamwork as was the original purpose.\n\nSo to ask which is the oldest sport, you need to ask what definition of the word sport you are using. The original or the modern meaning?\n\nAs for the oldest event you would have to say running. But who knows if it was an organized competition.
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The CHINESE, then the GREEKS and the ROMANS (and some other civilizations all over). Then the modern Football with the ENGLISH and then THE WORLD.\n\nHistory info:\nAssociation football, soccer or simply football. The Laws of the Game are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the independent schools of England.\n\nDocumented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the Han Dynasty in about 2nd century BC.\n\nIt describes a practice known as tsu chu (Traditional Chinese:蹴鞠 or 蹴踘 ; Pinyin: cù jū) which involved kicking a leather ball through a hole in a piece of silk cloth strung between two 30 foot poles. It was not a game as such but more of a spectacle for the amusement of the Emperor and it may have been performed as long as 3000 years ago.\n\nThe Greeks and Romans are known to have played many ball games some of which involved the use of the feet.\n\nEvidence from many ancient societies Chinese, Greek, Mayan, and Egyptian reveals that kicking games like soccer was played in those cultures. The modern game of soccer began in the 19th century in England, where a variety of football games developed, all of which involved both handling and kicking.\n\nMany different cultures have played a sport similar to the modern game of soccer but no one can really say with any certainty when or where soccer began but it is known that the earlier variations of what later became soccer were played almost 3000 years ago. \n\nOne of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto. \n\nThe Romans played a game that somewhat resembled modern soccer. The early Olympic games in  Rome featured twenty-seven men on a side who completed so vigorously that two-thirds of them had to be hospitalized after a fifty-minute game. \n\nWhile historians kept records of events such as wars and religious movements they had very little interest in preserving the various origins of soccer or many other sports, so no one can say how soccer seems to have spread from Asia to Europe.
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since the beginning of mankind, people have been hitting round objects with a stick and running.  who could ever pinpoint an exact date when u think about it that way?
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I gotta go with Football(not soccer, american football) and the fastest growing sport in america, Lacrosse. I play and watch them both.
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Interesting question.\nThe oldest country as we understand the term today would be San Marino (310AD). As far as civilizations are concerned there are a few who would compete: Japan (first sings of civilization around 10000 BC), China with the same term. Rome and Greece are much younger.
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Football\n\nUntil the Ashes start and then everyone who couldn't care less about Cricket becomes a life long fan
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Depends on what you mean by football :-)\n\nThere were several games in ancient times where people kicked balls around with their feet and were probably the originator of both soccer or football (the american version - I don't know what the rest of the world calls our football).\n\nAccording to wikipedia in 2nd century china they played a game very similar to our modern games and probably was the ancestor to both.\n\nModern soccer dates to at least as early as 1519, and modern (american) football to around 1820.  Both took a little time to move from school fitness programs to officially endorsed sports with paid atheletes.\n\nThe link below gives some additional details.\n\nEnjoy and game on.  :-)
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Evidence from many ancient societies Chinese, Greek, Mayan, and Egyptian reveals that kicking games like soccer was played in those cultures. The modern game of soccer began in the 19th century in England, where a variety of football games developed, all of which involved both handling and kicking.\n\nLondon Football Association (FA) in 1863 established the first set of rules for soccer, which was played at that time mostly in private schools and universities. The FA Cup, a tournament first organized in 1871, sparked the rapid spread of soccer in England. Regular league\nplay started in England in 1888. A game in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1872 between an English all-star team and its Scottish counterpart marked the beginning of international play.\n\nSoccer's global spread began at the end of the 19th century, when British traders, sailors, and workers carried the sport all over the world.\nBy 1930 professional leagues were operating in many countries, and that year FIFA formed in 1904 and organized the first World Championship.\nNow known simply as the World Cup, the tournament is played every four years and has become the world's most popular sporting event.\n\nThe North American Soccer League (NASL), founded in 1968, brought Brazilian star Pelé to the United States, and by 1980 the league had 24 teams.\nThe NASL suffered financially, and in 1984 it went out of business.\nHowever, the league left a legacy of growing American involvement in the sport at youth level. By the 1990s, soccer was recognized as the fastest-growing college and high school sport in the United States.\nThe Soccer Industry Council of America estimated that by 1994 there were more than 13 million boys and girls under the age of 18 who played soccer.
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The oldest pair of skates known date back to about 3000 B.C., found at the bottom of a lake in Switzerland. The skates were made from the leg bones of large animals, holes were bored at each end of the bone and leather straps were used to tie the skates on. An old Dutch word for skate is "schenkel" which means "leg bone". \n\nAround the 14th Century, the Dutch started using wooden platform skates with flat iron bottom runners. The skates were attached to the skater's  shoes with leather straps.  Poles were used to propel the skater. Around 1500, the Dutch added a narrow metal double edged blade, making the poles a thing of the past, as the skater could now push and glide with his feet (called the "Dutch Roll"). \n\nIn 1848, E. V. Bushnell of Philadelphia, PA invented the first all steel clamp for skates. \n\nIn 1865, Jackson Haines, a famous American skater, developed the two plate all metal blade. The blade was attached directly to Haines' boots. The skater became famous for his new dance moves, jumps and spins. Haines added the first toe pick to skates in the 1870's, making toe pick jumps possible. \n\nThe first artificial ice rink (mechanically-refrigerated) was built in 1876, at Chelsea, London, England and was named the Glaciarium. It was built near the King's Road in London by John Gamgee. \n\nIn 1914, John E. Strauss, a blade maker from St. Paul, Minnesota, invented the first closed toe blade made from one piece of steel, making skates lighter and stronger. \n\nThe largest outdoor ice rink is the Fujikyu Highland Promenade Rink in Japan, built in 1967 and boasts an ice area of 165,750 square feet-- equal to 3.8 acres.
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I can't help you with the oldest in the world but the Atlanta Braves (MLB) are the oldest continuous operating professional team in the USA.\n\nCheck the source to read all about them.
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Evidence from many ancient societies Chinese, Greek, Mayan, and Egyptian reveals that kicking games like soccer was played in those cultures. The modern game of soccer began in the 19th century in England, where a variety of football games developed, all of which involved both handling and kicking
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For pre-history, one would have to consider contests related to hunting activities (running, throwing various items like rocks and spears, etc.).  Throwing knucklebones and other gambling games would appear to have prehistoric origins, and wrestling might not merely be prehistoric but prehuman.\n\nWe know that ancient peoples played ball games, as we have representations of these.  Greek vase paintings show a ball game played with sticks, rather like field hockey.\n\nThe original Olympic Games, which are based on funeral games recorded in legends, included various running and hurling contests plus boxing, wrestling and a form of no-holds-barred fighting called the "pankration," which was often fatal to the competitors.  Horse and chariot racing were added later  The Games have been dated to 776 BCE, which is recent in the span of the human race.
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Join the world's oldest profession
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The oldest dam still in use is in Orontes in Syria, and was built in 1300 BC.\n\n\ntype dam in search query in the link below.
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The roots of the sport are from rugby and soccer (european football).  The form of the game played in the 1870's was a contact sport played with mostly soccer rules.
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Cricket by a long way. In it's modern form it can be dated back at least until the 1660's, but probably until the 13th century. There is now evidence to suggest a similar game was even played in ancient Rome!\nAs for baseball, the earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "base-ball". Rounders was actually only codified in the 1840's, so it is hard to say if baseball came from Rounders or not.
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I really want to help you since it's my background. Here's some info from the book 'Sports' The Complete visual Reference':\n "It roots back to antiquity (called sphaira by the Greeks and ollis by the Romans); in Renaissance Italy, a more elaborate version, calcio, was played. Soccer as we know it today was invented in England in the mid 19th century (1848). The first club, Sheffield Football Club, was formed in 1863, and the first competition, the Football Association (FA) Challenge Cup, was organized in 1842. The Federation international de football association (FIFA) was founded in 1904. A demonstration sport in the Olympics of 1900 and 1904, soccer became an official Olympic event in 1908. Soccer is universal because its equipment and rules are simple and because of global coverage of the World Cup. No other international event is followed so closely, due mainly to television broadcasting of matches since 1958. (1.7 billion viewers watched the France-Brazil final in 1998). Today, 203 countries are FIFA members."\n\nHope this helps for some history. I have a lot more information I can give you, but my fingers for now are tired of typing. Anyways, you can write me at lasorna@hotmail.com and subject: 'I need Soccer Info' and I'll respond. I hope you do an excellent job on your project. Good Luck.