Naismith's Creation
Americans pay much attention to physical fitness. Many sports and
sporting activities are popular in the USA. People participate in
swimming, skating, squash and badminton, tennis, marathons,
track-and-field, bowing, archery, skiing, skating etc. But the five
major American sports are hockey, volleyball, baseball, football and
basketball. Basketball and volleyball have been invented in America.
There is a large choice of sports in America. This can be explained by
the size and variety of the country. Another reason of the popularity
of sports is the people’s love of competition of any kind. One more
reason is that Americans use sports activities for teaching socials
values, such as teamwork and sportsmanship. All this explains why
Americans have traditionally done well in many kinds of sports.
Every high school offers its students many sports, such as wrestling,
rowing, tennis and golf. There are no separate “universities” for
sports in the USA. Students of any higher educational establishment
are trained in different kinds of sports. Many colleges and
universities are famous for their sports clubs. There are sports
facilities at every school.
Some americans like active games, and others like quite games. I think
that quite games, as golf and crocket, intend for rich elite people.
Most popular games in the USA is hockey, american football, baseball,
basketball. Popular among americans are NHL games. In NHL games play
our compatriots: Feudorov, Yashin, Bure brothers. They are ones of the
best players in NHL.
American football is like a rugby with kicks. Every player can beat
another one. I think american football is one of the rudest games in
the world.
Baseball is played with wooden bat and hard ball. It's called
"typical" american game.
Basketball is one of the most spectators game in the USA. It's my
favourite game too.
Some unusual kinds of sports originated in America. They are
windsurfing, skate-boarding and tradition. Triathlon includes
swimming, bicycling racing and long-distances-running. Now these are
becoming more and more popular in Europe.