What's your national sport?
By stvasile
@stvasile (7306)
Romania
25 responses
@alvarotiago (9)
• Brazil
15 Feb 07
For Brazil, the national sport is called "Soccer"
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@brunobolinha (888)
• Portugal
17 Dec 06
In Portugal the nationla sport is soccer.
regards.
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@flames_fan (20)
• Canada
14 Feb 07
Its actually lacrosse, oddly enough. Hockey is Canada's national winter sport.
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@nehakalley4 (1918)
• United States
30 Nov 06
In India its hockey but you will find cricket fans the most in India
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@givemechance (3794)
• Indonesia
4 Dec 06
for indonesia maybe national sports is bulutangkis... as called " badminton".
@ducktales (273)
• India
30 Nov 06
for india its hockey but all love cricket... so it should be made national sport...
@vinaykant (812)
• India
4 Dec 06
in india the national game is hockey.
We were world chapian in hockey.
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@flames_fan (20)
• Canada
11 Feb 07
Lacrosse is our national sport here in Canada. (You would think it would be hockey but it isn't)
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@R3fl3XioN (3187)
• France
28 Dec 06
Hmmm, I don't know. Maybe it is football [soccer for american]. I play Badminton and in France, it's not famous :(.
@BlaKy2 (1475)
• Romania
4 Feb 07
Oina is a Romanian ball sport, similar in some ways to baseball.
It was first time mentioned during the rule of Vlaicu Voda in 1364, when it was spread all across Wallachia and it used to be a game of the shepherds.
At the first edition of the Olympics (1896), Romania offered to send two Oina teams, but it was turned down by the International Olympic Committee, because oina was not played in other countries.
In 1899, Spiru Haret, the minister of education decided that oina to be played in schools in Physical education classes and organized the first annual oina competitions.
Romanian Oina Federation was founded in 1932, and reactivated at the beginning of the 1950s.
Today, there are two Oina Federations: one in Bucharest, Romania and another one in Chisinau, Moldova.
here are two teams, one "at bat" ("la bataie") and one "at catching" ("la prindere").
The game begins with the team "at bat", with one of the players throwing the ball while another player of the same team has to hit it with a wooden bat ("bâta") and send it as far as he can towards the adversary field. After that, the player has to run on the "culoarele de ducere si întoarcere" that are to be found in the adversary field before the adversary receives the ball from his co-players.
# ame weight of the ball: around 140 grams for both
# Longer and slimmer bat for Oina
# A game takes only 30 minutes for Oina
# Oina teams have 11 players; Baseball teams have 9 players