Lacrosse

[grepo]

Lacrosse replaces Baseball/American Football and BB as the lead sport in N. America as it returns to the Olympics in 2028! After all it is the oldest sport in N African history, possibly dating back to the 12th Century.

 

[grepo]

As no one else has replied to my wishful thinking April fool, may I pose a question? How many other sports were not invented by British/Commonwealth people?

 

[AB]

As no one else has replied to my wishful thinking April fool, may I pose a question? How many other sports were not invented by British/Commonwealth people?

Chess

 

[AB]

I think your April Fool doesn’t work because the US actually takes Lacrosse surprisingly seriously with televised games and college scholarships while it’s largely died out here.

The death of British Lacrosse is in part down to my old school which had won the national championships for about a decade straight in the early c20th and was encouraged (I think by a Headmasters Conference vote) to stop playing and change to hockey to give everyone else a chance.

 

[grepo]

What is the difference between a sport and a game? Are the lines blurring? A degree of physicality should be involved in the former, especially for recognition in the Olympic games, and Lacrosse certainly embraces that expectation.

 

[AB]

What is the difference between a sport and a game? Are the lines blurring? A degree of physicality should be involved in the former, especially for recognition in the Olympic games, and Lacrosse certainly embraces that expectation.

We should go back to the early modern Olympics and have stuff like painting included. And tug of war as the London Fire Brigade has held its title too long and Squid Game showed it could be an interesting sport.

 

[grepo]

Lacrosse replaces Baseball/American Football and BB as the lead sport in N. America as it returns to the Olympics in 2028! After all it is the oldest sport in N African history, possibly dating back to the 12th Century.

North American!

 

[Oxford Bee]

I think your April Fool doesn’t work because the US actually takes Lacrosse surprisingly seriously with televised games and college scholarships while it’s largely died out here.

The death of British Lacrosse is in part down to my old school which had won the national championships for about a decade straight in the early c20th and was encouraged (I think by a Headmasters Conference vote) to stop playing and change to hockey to give everyone else a chance.

I believe that it’s still going strong in girls’ independent schools.

 

[Silly Hat]

Chess

Chess is not a sport.

Signed

Tiddlywinks World Champion and Sports Personality of the Year 1984

 

[savvy 2210]

As no one else has replied to my wishful thinking April fool, may I pose a question? How many other sports were not invented by British/Commonwealth people?

Polo, horse racing, wrestling, archery, athletics, swimming to name a few.

 

[Super_horns]

Lacrosse is in the 2028 Olympics I think on a small scale .

Got a family friend who played for England and they won 2 bronze medals at World championships.

USA are miles ahead of the rest though and our friend went to the only non private school that play it in England before getting a scholarship in the US.

 

[Silly Hat]

Polo, horse racing, wrestling, archery, athletics, swimming to name a few.

The key, overwhelming question is what popular (not niche - like polo) *team* sports were invented by non-Britons. I think you’ll find that most popular team sports were invented by us. Which, again, makes our small collection of islands off the coast of NW Europe quite exceptional when it comes to our astonishing and overwhelming impact on the modern world ??