Sports in India: Anyone who knows me knows that I have always been very interested in sports. The sports in India have almost zero overlap with popular American sports. The sports they love:
Cricket: Kind of a weird form of baseball. The scoring makes no sense. It’s kind of like baseball, but there is no foul territory and the outs are not the same. Our church stake did only one activity all year, and it was a large cricket tournament - rented out a stadium and everything. This is the main sport by a large margin.
Field Hockey: India has won eight (8) Olympic medals in field hockey. Given that India has the lowest per capita rate of any country that has won at least one medal, this is pretty much its strongest sport.
Kabaddi: This indigenous sport has two teams of seven players each. One “raider” will venture onto the opposing side, tag as many players as possible without being tackled himself, all while holding his breath (??), and then return. Also, the raider must be continually and loudly chanting “kabaddi” over and over again to show the judges he is not taking extra breaths. This is the biggest sport you have never heard of.
India also enjoys other sports we are more familiar with. Soccer (or “Football” as it is called here) is quite popular, as are badminton and wrestling.
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