This is a great question. Sailing is not the oldest American Sport. In fact, there are several "sports" or "competitive games" that Native Americans still regularly participate in today (e.g. Lacrosse) that are far older than competitive sailing. Early European sports imported by the first settlers would include Fencing and target shooting as well as Wrestling and boxing.
However, the Americas Cup Trophy is the oldest Trophy in sailing (1851), and many resources claim that it could quite possibly be the oldest perpetual trophy in any sport to date. Competitive sailing is a sport with a long history in the Americas. With any luck, it will last for hundreds perhaps thousands of years to come.
As with any other sport, if it is competitive sailing then to beat your opponents, in pleasure sailing then to enjoy yourself
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Baseball is the oldest of the major American teamsports
basketball
Midget Tossing
Lacrosse (oldest American Sport), Hockey (not really American, though)
America's Cup The America's Cup is the most famous and most prestigious regatta in the sport of sailing, and the oldest active trophy in international sport, pre-dating the FA Cup by two decades and the Modern Olympics by 45 years.
La Cross is not a cross of any sport its the oldest North American sport ...
sailing isn't an olympic sport its a regular stupid sport like football
The sport of windsurfing combines both sailing and surfing.
The sport of sailing.