A new sport. New Olympic sports

Human fantasy in pursuit of extreme and popularity knows no bounds. Every year in the world there are new kinds of sports. Many of them are really interesting and harmless for health. Nevertheless, there are more rigid and uncompromising species. In addition, recently long-forgotten national games have become popular.

Slamball

This is an alternative offshoot of basketball. Slamball is a team game, the founders of which are the notorious media personality Mike Tolin and Mason Gordon. It is worth noting that this new sport in Russia is actively gaining momentum today. Success came to him thanks to the spectacularity and diversity of feints.

Slamball is similar in rules with street basketball. However, the main difference is the playground. Trampolines are stretched in specially designated areas. With the help of these athletes jumping up to 5 meters up and throwing balls. Contacts in the air are allowed. From each team on the field there are 4 participants.

Hadith

HeadIS is a mixture of table tennis and football. This new sport was recognized in Germany thanks to student Renee Wegner. It was he who, a few years ago, invented a game on the tennis table, where head shots are applied instead of rackets. Hadith rules are identical with ping-pong. Rats are replaced by a head. A traditional plastic ball is replaced with a special rubber ball. The participants of the match must deftly move the projectile through the net on a small table, trying to catch the enemy by surprise. Currently, hedis is in demand among students throughout Western Europe.

Kok-boru

This contact game was invented in Central Asia. In ancient times, the rich were liked to play in Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Iran. Nevertheless, over the years, they forgot about the Kok-bor. The modern version of the game has undergone some changes in the rules, but the foundation has remained the same. This sport is similar to the horse polo, but instead of the ball is used carcass of a ram or goat. Historians note that earlier as a projectile protruded gutted wolf.

Each team must have 4 members. The goal of the game is to put the carcass of the animal into a special hole, that is, the gate of the opponent. The fight is divided into 3 periods of 20 minutes. The game allows rudeness, nevertheless it is forbidden to hit the opponent or his horse with a whip, and also to push the person from the saddle.

Summer Biathlon

It is rumored that in the next 8-12 years another rapidly developing alternative discipline will enter the Olympic program. This is a summer biathlon, which can be held both on the ground and on the rubber coating. This new sport promises to be not only spectacular, but also very interesting. Instead of traditional skis, special elongated rollers are used here. The main advantage is that they can be engaged in any weather, whereas the winter biathlon requires specific conditions (at least snow). In addition, for training, you do not need expensive equipment.

If the summer biathlon will be included in the Olympic program, then the contestants will be able to participate also from Africa.

Footbag

This rather spectacular and intriguing game originated in the US back in the 1970s. Nevertheless, she received popularity only in recent years. In Russia this new sport has two branches: net-game and freestyle. The first genre is a game between rivals. Its purpose is to throw the ball through a low net. If the shell touches the ground, a goal is scored. Freestyle is a technical solo with a ball. The athlete shows to the music all his skills of processing the projectile in the air.

At the competitions not only the technique and variability of the stunts are evaluated, but also the artistry. Here, success depends entirely on imagination.

Flyboard

FlyBoard is considered one of the most traumatic entertainment. This is a new water sport, which is rapidly gaining momentum among the leading extremals from around the world. The game received the name in honor of the eponymous device of the hoverboard, which can lift a person to the air for as much as 9 meters. The flyboard works on special pumps and pumps. The water is pumped through the thick hose to the motor. The pump with incredible power fires it back, thereby lifting the person up. The goal of the game is to stay in the air more time and not fall before rivals. Balancing is achieved due to the special position of the hands, to which, in turn, their own individual pumps are summed up.

The set with the board and the device itself also includes special protective boots.

Petank

The recently revived French game in Europe began to gain serious momentum. To date, even in Russia there are several specialized petanque clubs, two of which are based in Moscow.

This is a mixture of bowling and curling. Players are divided into two teams. The meeting is held on a rectangular area. The bottom line is to throw a heavy metal ball as close as possible to a wooden shell called a koshonet. Translated from the French word cochonnet means "piggy". Also, the winning position of the ball is the release of the opponent's ball from the allotted zone. This sport requires strategic thinking and dexterity. You can play at any time of the year. Age restrictions are not available.

Sepacactrau

In literal translation from the Malaysian, this game means "blow on the woven ball". Appeared originally this new sport in Asia. Today it is popular in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Germany, Italy, Canada and the USA.

Sepaktakrau is something contiguous between volleyball, football and gymnastics. The platform is divided into two halves. Each team has 3 members. The delivery is in accordance with the generally accepted rules of volleyball. Beating balls and perepasovyvatsya can be any part of the body, except hands. Flip flops and twine in the air are the special techniques in sepaktakrau.

Squash

Squash was coined in the UK, but the peak of popularity of the game reached in Canada and America. Today new sports in the world appear with enviable regularity, however only a small part of them really has a bright future. And squash just refers to this minority. A telling moment is that this kind of sport really claims to be included in the expanded program of the Olympics-2020. The essence of the game is that the opponents, while in a small room, alternately hit the ball in any of the four walls. Manipulations over the projectile are carried out only by means of a racket. If the ball touches the floor more than once, then the opponent is awarded a ball.

New Olympic kinds (winter)

Since 2014, the international committee has decided to expand the traditional program of the Olympics. So, in Sochi were presented such new winter sports as team figure skating, jumping from the springboard among women, mixed relay in biathlon. In addition, the program entered the halfpipe. This game is a competition in a special concave design with snow. Participants must move from one wall to the opposite, performing various tricks and jumps. All these new Olympic sports received a lot of positive feedback from viewers and experts. They bring not only variety and intrigue, but also an additional flavor. It is expected that in 2018 the program of competitions will expand to a couple of positions.

New Olympic kinds (summer)

Since the early 2000s, the expanded program included baseball, and softball, and squash, and karate. Nevertheless, many of them were soon excluded.

In 2012, the program included 26 sports. For each of them, votes were cast in the international committee. But what new sports will be included in the next Olympic Games? First of all - golf. This popular in the United States game aristocrats received 63 votes out of 90. Also in the program will include rugby-7. This is a simplified format of the game. 81 members of the committee voted for him. Thus, at the nearest Olympics there will be no squash, no karate, no roller skating.