Sport Science Facts

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• Three continents – Africa, South America, and Antarctica – have never hosted an Olympics.

• The Olympic rings cover every flag in the world.

• The Olympics once lasted 187 days.
  

  2014 World Cup is the most expensive World Cup ever (14-16 billion US Dollars).

• Black athletes didn’t win the marathon until 1960.

• Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world.

• A soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels, held together by 642 stitches.

• A single soccer player runs 7 miles during an entire game.

• The largest football stadium in the world is the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro.

• It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.

• Brazil is the only country to have played in every World Cup tournament.

• The Major League Baseball teams use about 850,000 balls per season.

• 22.8% of golfers are women.

• Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.

• South Korea is the birthplace of taekwondo, an olympic sport since 2000.

• Michael Schumacher is the highest paid sportsman, ahead of Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer.

• Golf is the only sport played on the moon by Alan Sheppard on 6 February 1971.

• Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls.

• The Tour de France bicycle race is 2,300 miles long.

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