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Australian Sports

Australian Sports. Alberto Ropero Carlos Valdivia Manuel Yáñez. Sports. Sport plays an important part in Australian culture, assisted by a climate that favours outdoor activities. 23.5% Australians over the age of 15 regularly participate in organised sporting activities.

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Australian Sports

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  1. Australian Sports Alberto Ropero Carlos Valdivia Manuel Yáñez

  2. Sports Sport plays an important part in Australian culture, assisted by a climate that favours outdoor activities. 23.5% Australians over the age of 15 regularly participate in organised sporting activities.

  3. Australia has strong teams in cricket, field hockey, netball, rugby league, rugby union, and international rules football, and it performs well in cycling, rowing, and swimming.

  4. Nationally, other popular sports include Australian rules football, horse racing, soccer, and motor racing. Australia has participated in every summer Olympic Games of the modern era, and every Commonwealth Games.

  5. Australia hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and has ranked among the top six medal-takers since 2000.

  6. Other major international events held in Australia include the Grand Slam Australian Open tennis tournament, international cricket matches, and the Formula One Australian Grand Prix.

  7. Cricket Is a bat-and-ball team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1597 and it is now played in more than 100 countries. The current world leading team is Australia

  8. Field hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal.

  9. Netball Is a non-contact team sport similar to, and derived from, basketball. It is usually known as a women's sport.

  10. Rugby league Is a competitive full-contact team sport played with a prolate spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field. Rugby league is one of the two major codes of Rugby football, the other being rugby union.

  11. Rugby union Is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league

  12. Football Is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve (to varying degrees) kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a goal

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