Facts about sport jocks?
That youngest person ever to have won a world boxing championship is Wilfred BenitezThe Scottish government banned golf in 1647The cricket player Don Bradman got his nickname Goldie because of the colour of his hairThe first All-Star baseball game was held in Chicago, 1905The tennis net is 36 inches high in the centerTennis was originally played with bare handsL. Sivaramakrishnan of India is the cricket player with the longest surnameIn 1980 Ken Morro from New York Islanders became the first ever to win both an Olympic gold medal and a Stanley Cup title the same yearBetween the year 1937 and 1958 there was no America's CupIn 1979 Wayne Gretzky scored his first point in the NHL against the Chicago BlackhawksA hockey puck is made of vulcanized rubberThe goaltender in water polo was at begining standing on the pool deckZola Budd, a South African long distance runner with a world record, trained and raced barefootThe shortest game ending in checkmate is only two movesA French climber, by the nickname Spiderman, has climbed the tallest building in the worldClimbing ropes are able to hold over 6000 PoundsVasaloppet in Sweden is the biggest Cross-Country Skirace in the world. The race is 90km longScuba diving was invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943The longest hole on a golf course is the sixth hole at the Koolan Island Course in Australia. The hole measures 860 yardsChina has their own Vasalopp and the first year only a few hundred participated in the raceThe best badminton shuttles are made from the feathers taken from the left wing of a gooseSnowboarding was invented in the 1960s in AustriaNew Zealand and Australia are the only countries south of the equator to won medals at the Olympic Winter GamesThe Youngest winner of Tour de France was Henri Cornet at the age of 19Norway has won more Winter Games gold medals than any other countryThere are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ballSnowboarding was invented in the 1960s in AustriaNew Zealand and Australia are the only countries south of the equator to won medals at the Olympic Winter GamesThe Youngest winner of Tour de France was Henri Cornet at the age of 19Norway has won more Winter Games gold medals than any other countryThe first Grand Prix race ever was won at an average speed of 46 mphNASCAR has by tradition only allowed American made cars to compete in the raceThe Indianapolis Motor Speedway is home to the first US long-distance auto race in 1911The Olympic silver medal is made of 92.5% silverThe Olympic gold medal must contain at least six grams of goldAll Olympic medals must be minimum 60 millimeters in diameterThe Olympic motto is Citius, Altius, Fortius wich is Latin and means Faster, Higher, BraverThe Olympic flag was designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de CoubertinThe Olympic Fire-tower in Turin is 57 metres high and that is the highest tower ever built for an Olympic GameIce hockey became an Olympic sport at a Summer Olympics in Antwerp in 1920The total distance in Tour de France changes every yearJohn Pius Boland was the first Irish-born to win an Olympic gold medalThe first women's boxing match in the US took place in NYC, 1876Everton have never won the League CupA linesman are estimate to run about 4 miles during a soccer gameMexico was the first country to host the World Cup (soccer) twiceThe biggest loss ever in a World Cup football match was between Zaire and YugoslaviaThe Olympic gold medal is mostly made of SilverSnowboarding is the fastest growing sport in the worldThe five interlocking rings of the Olympic flag symbolize a meeting of the athletes from five original continents, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and AmericaWrestling is the oldest sport in the worldThe origins of bowling is GermanyThe first time a woman from Iran competed in the Olympics was in 1996Manchester United were first known as Newton Heath. They changed their name in 1902Pakistan's national sport is hockeyIn Island boxing was not allowed before 2002The first sport ever to be filmed was boxing, 1894Only Greece and Australia have participated in every modern Olympics games since 1896The term forward pass was first created by the football team at Saint Louis UniversityThe only sport that has been played on the moon is golf. On the 6 of February 1971 Alan Shepard hit a golf ballThe largest amount of participant in a sport is sport fishingAverage life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitchesBefore the year 1859 umpires sat in a rocking chair behind the catcherOver 1800 medals are awarded at the OlympicsA bowling pin will fall down at a tilt of 7.5 degreesThe first puck ever to be used in a hockey game was a frozen piece of cow poopSweden's National Sauna Champion is Ari Petrof. He stayed in a sauna for five hours and 10 minutes with a temperature of 212 degrees F(100 degrees C)The penalty kick in soccer was introduced to the Game in 1891According to data published by FIFA 2001, over 240 million people worldwide play soccerThe baseball team New York Yankees have won the most World Series Championships. Their first title was won in 1923 and they have 26 titles in allThe weight of a hockey puck is 0.38 lbThe first basketball league game was held between the Toronto Huskies and the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto Canada on November 1, 1946. New York won the game by 68-66Triathlon is one of the fastest growing sports in the UKSpeaking of NBA Basketball, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the all-time leader in field goals made with 15,837The first African-American quarterback in the NFL was Willie Thrower. He played for the Chicago Bears in 1953Hockey has been played for over three centuriesThe first time a Rugby team from Wales toured in South Africa was in 1964Golf was invented in Scotland. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden and that put the word GOLF into the vocabularyThe only team to ever win the Superbowl that plays it's home games in a domed stadium was in 1999 in St. Louis RamsIt takes about 3,000 cows to supply enough leather for a year's production of American footballs to be used by the NFLThe only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games in USA like the NFL,NBA, MLB, NHL or NFL are the day before and after the Major League all-stars GameAmerican football originate from English rugby in the early part of 1800. The first football was round. American students played a similar game called ballownIn tennis the work/rest ratiois is about 1:3A golf balls can reach speeds up to about 170 miles an hourA 16lb bowling ball hits the lane with a force of over 2000lb per square inchBabe Ruth hit 113 home runs in only two seasonsThe first bowling pins were so light that sometimes they flew out through the window of the bowling clubDuring a tennis match your shorts will gain weight
