The most

popular sport in Britain is football. A lot of people support their local clubs at matches or watch the matches live on television. Other typical British sports are: golf, tennis, baseball, cricket and rugby. In the USA baseball used to play a leading role among sports but nowadays basketball and American football seems to be the most popular. Jogging loses its popularity as it is quite dangerous to walk or run alone. You can be robbed or hit by someone or you can collapse and no one is around to help you.
Every school in the USA has a school team that play baseball, basketball or football against other schools.

What sports are popular in your country and in our region?

In Czech republic sport and physical training have a long tradition. The first physical training association SOKOL was founded in 1862. Today the responsible body is the Czech Union of Physical Training. It is a voluntary organisation founded at the beginning of 1957.
The British have always been nation of sport lovers. And it is sad, when British buy the newspaper and the first; he turns to, is sport. Many sports which nowadays are played all over the world. Grew up to their present day form in Britain: football, horse riding, golf, and lawn tennis.

There is

no typical sport in Czech republic but the most popular ones are football and ice hockey. Tennis has become very popular recently but it is very expensive sport. There are many people in our country who go in for some sport especially young ones. All generations like to watch sports on television or at the stadiums, sports halls, swimming pools, All school children have chance to attend physical education (training) lessons which are compulsory and given in school gyms and fitness centres.

There was

a soccer match between FC Liverpool and Juventus Turin on May 29th in Brussel, on Heysel Stadium. Rowdies couldn’t miss that match. Stadium was crowded. During the game, Rowdies got in fight with another group of fans. They were acting like wild animals. Many of people were trying to run away down on the field. They couldn’t, because of fences. 39 people died in couple of seconds because of terrible behaviour of enthusiastic admirers of sport. After this game many of soccer stadiums were divided in more sections, so big groups of fans don’t get a chance of physical contact.

There

are fans in every sport and they like to participate on game. Fans go on stadiums to see their favourite teams or players. One of the most popular sports for fans is soccer. Some of the soccer stadiums can effort 60-80 thousand people. Among those thousands of people are always some who don’t know how to behave. One of the worst groups of vandals are „Rowdies“. It is a British group of soccer fans.

Drugs

are illegal in sports so sometimes the sport organisations make blood tests after the competitions. Many good sportsmen and sportswomen were caught taking the drugs. There are many kinds of drugs known and some of them are not detectable. Drugs are not the only the one unhealthy stuff in sports. Some of the sports are unhealthy themselves. Every sport could be unhealthy, but some of them are really dangerous, for example boxing, hockey, American football, act. Most of the professional boxers have problems with their bodies when they get older. Their hands are shaking and many of them have problems to think like a normal people anymore. There isn’t only a risk of physical problems in boxing, but mentally also.

Some

of the politics use sport meets to make their own campaigns
In all of these competitions there is a big pressure on the people in sports. There is a pressure from family, sponsors, couch, manager and from public. So they are trying to win all the time. Many of sportsmen and sportswomen are not good enough to be the best, so some of them take a drugs to get better, to have fame and make a big money.

Some

of sponsors advertise their products that are unhealthy such as tobacco or alcohol companies. For example one of the biggest sponsors of Formula 1 is Marlboro, the tobacco monopoly company. In some of the countries is this advertising illegal, but in most of the countries around the world the governments don’t care. Where the money is, there are politics too.