National Sports of Countries

[Jinzha 702]

11 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

What would you make the national sport though. What sport is worth that honor on that list?

While football wins the popularity price, I'd say 1) speed skating 2) cycling and 3) field hockey, for being more uniquely Dutch. Purely personal opinion though.

[Laraja 1,494]

If I am not mistaken, Sandboard was created here in Brazil. It's pretty know in few places of my country

[Vojthas 949]

3 hours ago, GoHungary! said:

In case of I would say...

 

1. Football obviously

 

2. Waterpolo

3. Kayaking/Canoeing

4. Handball

5. everything else

Didn't you miss swimming and modern pentathlon somewhere before "everything else"?

[Belle 975]

15 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’d argue for Ice Hockey there...or even Bandy

Yes Ice hockey and Bandy are very popular in Sweden too. But Football is still the National sport. 

[heywoodu 15,147]

8 minutes ago, Belle said:

Yes Ice hockey and Bandy are very popular in Sweden too. But Football is still the National sport. 

Welcome to the list of a gazillion countries that'd say the same about football

 

[dcro 10,210]

I don't like the criteria: sport invented in X -> national sport of x.

 

Football is the main sport here, but I don't like to call it "national sport", because that sounds rather pretentious.

[dcro 10,210]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Welcome to the list of a gazillion countries that'd say the same about football

 

 

Ok.... Cricket is certainly not the national sport of UAE.

Edited August 8, 2019 by dcro

[heywoodu 15,147]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Ok.... Cricket is certainly not the national sport of UAE.

Yeah I'm sure there's plenty of things wrong with it (also it's about the most popular sports in a country instead of the national sport, maybe cricket 'won' in UAE because of all the foreign employees  ), but it's mostly about the broad picture: football is just too big to be any one nation's national sport in my opinion  

[Monzanator 4,505]

Football over cc skiing in Norway? You're not serious?

 

And if sumo OR judo isn't a national sport in Japan over baseball these guys have no idea what they're doing.

[heywoodu 15,147]

2 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Football over cc skiing in Norway? You're not serious?

 

And if sumo OR judo isn't a national sport in Japan over baseball these guys have no idea what they're doing.

 

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Baseball is the undisputed top sport in Japan, and is jokingly called Japan's national sport (ironically, Japan actually has no officially recognized national sport—not even sumo or kendo). 

While most Japanese people would understand the word "baseball," locally it's called yakyu, or puro yakyu when describing the professional league. Even high school baseball is taken very seriously, with the National High School Baseball Championships (or Koshien) a much-watched event every summer.