Popular asian sports

Children are generally encouraged to spend their time studying not playing sports. The Asian Games is played every four years. It was held in Doha, Qatar in More than 10, athletes competed in Olympics-style events as well as in sports such as speed chess, wushu, sepak takraw and soft tennis.

Rankings are hard enough as it is, but comparing across disciplines is a different ball game altogether — which is why we totally had to give it a go. In selecting these athletes, we considered not only their skill and accolades, but also their cultural significance, level of renown and the popularity of their respective sports. Linsanity caught the world by storm in Cricket is thought to have over 2. Tendulkar, widely regarded as the greatest batsman of all time, is revered at the level of Pele and Michael Jordan in the cricket world. What with their appearance in the World Cup semi-finals in and their recent gold at the Asian Games, South Korea stands heads and shoulders above the rest of Asia as the best soccer nation on the continent. A trailblazer for Asians playing in the European leagues, Cha aimed to bring back knowledge and skills from the German Bundesliga to enrich Korean soccer.

A total of nine sports were featured in the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in Since then, the number of disciplines has grown to the point where 28 sports will be contested in the Summer Olympics in Rio. Of course, several sports have been removed from the Olympic lineup over time, too — after the Beijing games, for instance, the International Olympic Committee voted to drop baseball and softball from the program, around the same time that it voted to add two sports, golf and rugby union, to the summer games in Rio. Origin: In s Japan, during the Freedom and People's Rights Movement, bo taoshi literal translation: knocking-pole over developed as an expression of rebellious energy aimed at toppling the Meiji oligarchy.

Being home to sundry sports, Asia is known as the origin of so many sports which are now famous all over the world. Over the years, Asians have competed with other countries, through their national teams on an international level. They have gone on to produce the most outstanding players in various games. Here are the top 4 popular games played in Asian countries.