Sports

Olympic records, unusual competitions, and the strangest sports you've never heard of.

From ancient Greece to modern Games, an authoritative tour through Olympic history's strangest records.

Cheese rolling, wife carrying, and chess boxing. The world's strangest competitions.

The world's most popular sport: 4 billion fans, 8 World Cup-winning nations, and a 173,000-strong crowd at the 1950 final in Rio.

Invented by James Naismith in December 1891 with peach baskets and a soccer ball. Today, an Olympic sport with over 450 million players worldwide.

32 NFL teams, an annual Super Bowl watched by tens of millions, and a sport whose 11-man rules go back to Walter Camp at Yale in 1880.