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The
choice of the sports offered in this World sports
book has been done according to two criterias.
- On one hand,
ont sports with World Championships or Olympic sports;
- On the other hand,
the
presence of world wide sports, impossible to be forgotten
in a reference book, like golf or rollers, eventhough
they have no direct World Championship. The texts
have been written according to the official rules
of national or international sports federations. Sports
are presented in alphabetical order.
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One
of the main purposes of this work is to offer a general
knowledge of the main sports practiced in the whole
world. Anyone should find interest in it: sports fans,
televiewers, students, teachers or members of the family
of a player, sport quizz fans...
The chosen display for each sport is on a double page,
to give to each discipline an equivalent respect, to
make it easy to read in order to enable a comparative
research, if necessary, as each informative unit will
be found in the same area of the text.
Please note that most of the rules are equally valid
for both men and women. The use of masculine pronouns
is merely to ensure that the text remains as simple
as possible.
The double page presents 3 parts: the text, a drawing
of the playing area and a phographic illustration. |
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Each
sport is shown under 7 sections: a title, a definition,
the origin, the game unit (game, race, competition...),
the venue, the equipment and the unfolding of the
main rules.
Definition
In
one phrase describes the main actions of the game.
Origin
When
each sport was created and by who.
Which year the World Championships started.
Which first year it was declared as an Olympic Sport,
if any.
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Between
Who
is going to play ?
The players, their numbers as well as the substitutes
and the way they are intoduced in the game.
Includes
The
game’s unit composition.
The different phases of the competition and its number
of periods.
Lenght
How
long is each period, phase, or competition ?
The
winner
The
winner can be nominated by adding the results of several
phases of the competition (ju jitsu), some others by the
winning of the last phase (judo)...
Directed
by
The officials: who and how many are they ?
Venue
You can see the setting up and the game’s
tools given by the organisers of the competition.
Equipment
Decsription of the participants’ outfits.
Unfolding of the playing unit
The main rules of the sport are described.
Choices have been done and we have preferred the understanding
of the unfolding of the sport described to the strict
repetition of the rules. Therefore, too specific details
for the general public might be missing!
By the way, some rules sometimes change, and, in this
respect, a downloadable update of new rules is available
on our website. But anyway, the game spirit rarely change
enough for the géneral use of this text to be
out of interest.
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A
drawing
A
drawing shows the venue.
When it is necessary, figures are given in the text
(bold with brackets), indicating the names of non obvious
elements (like lines or areas).
They are reduced to the minimum, as we considered the
references of the median lines, back lines and other
side lines as established.
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The
pictures
A photographic work
has been especially done for this book, and was made
possible with the free help of a great number of volunters
(sport photographs, professionals, federations...)
and with a number of sportives themselves.
You might have noticed that a sport having World Championships
is missing or a major mistake. Please let the editor
know.
Send him information regarding the official international
rules of that sport and the dates of the las World
Championships (without those precise informations,
we cannot do anything).
Adresses of the international federations are indicated
in the last pages.
We
wish you as much pleasure to read these pages as we
had to conceive and realize them.
Spiral B
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