Hello and welcome to my blog I will be telling you some fun and interesting facts about different sports. Hope you may learn something from this. Maybe even tell your parents what you have learnt well let's get into it:
Who created basketball and what was his occupation?
James Naismith invented the sport basketball for his classroom. He played it as a fun P.E game and luckily it got popular very quickly.
Where and when did the word Marathon originate?
Ancient Greece was where it came from. Apparently, the Athenians and the Persians had a huge battle. Then one of the soldiers had come back to call out triumph for one of the People and then had dropped dead when he had reached and had told them the good news. Which then somehow led them to think that is how the word Marathon came from.
Who created the Modern Olympics?
Baron Pierre De Coubertin was the man who had created the modern Olympics (According to google search)
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