FAMOUS UNIQUE GAMES PLAYED IN

FRANCE AND CHINA

CHINA GAMES1)BADMINTON2)BASEBALL

3)PING PONG(Table tennis)

4)TENNIS5)SNOOKER

Lin Dan is the only player in badminton history to have won three consecutive titles at the 

World Championships (2006, 2007 and2009).Because of its relative simplicity, inexpensive

equipment, and accessibility to venues, badminton is a very established and popular

sport in China. Many Chinese badminton players have gained international success and fame,

especially the many Gold medalists at the BWF World Championships.

It's a popular recreational sport, and amateur leagues exist across the country.

BADMINTON

Baseball was first introduced in 1864 with the establishment of the Shanghai Baseball Club by American medical missionary Henry William Boone. Organized baseball games were established with a game between the St. Johns University and the Shanghai MCA baseball club in 1905. However, in 1959 Mao Zedong disbanded all teams and outlawed baseball. After the Cultural Revolution ended, baseball activities restarted, and the China Baseball Association formed in 1974. In 2002, the China Baseball League was formed, and China participates in the World Baseball Classic. Defeats of the national team to Republic of China, Japan, and South Korea may help change the trend as Chinese become more aware of the game's internationalization.

BASEBALL

Table tennis or ping-pong is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth using a table tennis racket. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve, players must allow a ball played toward them only one bounce on their side of the table and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side. Points are scored when a player fails to return the ball within the rules. Play is fast and demands quick reactions. Spinning the ball alters its trajectory and limits an opponent's options, giving the hitter a great advantage. When doing so the hitter has a good chance of scoring if the spin is successful.

PING PONG(TABLE TENNIS)

Li Na is the first player fromChina and Asia to win a Grand Slam title.

Tennis is a growing recreational sport in China, although access to tennis

courts can be limited in densely populated urban areas. Recently

Chinese tennis players, especially women, have seen success

internationally both at the amateur level and professionally. International

tennis tournaments receive wide coverage on Chinese sporting

channels.

TENNIS

Ding Junhui is the first Chinese snooker player to win a ranking tournament and the Masters.

Although pool or, more specifically, billiards, has long been a popular street recreation sport in China, snooker's

popularity has increased over the last few years in China. It can partly be attributed to the ascension of young Chinese

player Ding Junhui who has since broken into the international Top 16. More and more young Chinese

players are breaking onto the professional circuit such as Liang Wenbo and Liu Chuang who both qualified for the last 32 of the 2008 World Snooker Championship, with

Liang going on to reach the quarter-finals where he faced a snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan. Snooker is played by an

estimated 50 million Chinese people, and there are now over 300 snooker clubs in Beijing alone. Some believe that

China should host more tournament events, and one day may even host the World Snooker Championship itself.

SNOOKER

FRANCE GAMES1)HANDBALL

2)RUGBY3)ICE

HOCKEY4)TENNIS

5)PARKOUR

The France national handball team is the current double reigning Olympic Champion and European champion. The team also won the 

World Championships in 1995, 2001, 2009, and World, and the European Championships in 2006 and 2010.

Men's national professional competitions are supervised by the Ligue nationale de handball with the top division being the Championnat

 de France de handball. Montpellier Agglomération Handball is the most successful team in French first division history with 13 titles from 1995 to 

2011. The team is also the only French team to have won the EHF Champions League in 2003.

The France women's national handball team won the 2003 World Women's Handball Championship.

Women's main national professional competition is the Championnat de France de handball féminin. Metz Handball is the most successful 

team in French first division history with 17 titles from 1989 to 2011. No French team has reached the semi-finals at the 

EHF Women's Champions League so far.

HANDBALL

Rugby union (rugby à 15 or jeu à 15) was first introduced in the early 1870s by British residents. While football is much more popular nationally, rugby union is predominant in the southern half of the country, especially around Toulouse, the French Basque country andCatalonia. Elite French clubs participate in the domestic club competition - the Top 14. Clubs also compete in the European knock-out competition, the Heineken Cup. It is the seventh largest French team sport in the terms of licensed players with 457,018 licensed players (2012).The national side is one of the tier 1 national teams. It competes annually in the Six Nations Championship, and won it outright 16 times. France has been to every Rugby World Cup since its inception in 1987, and has been a runner-up on three occasions. France hosted the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

RUGBY

ICE HOCKEYIce hockey is a fairly popular sport in France,

especially in the Rhône-Alpes region and in the cities of Rouen, Amiens and Tours. The governing body is the FFHG which administeres the national

championship, Ligue Magnus (founded in 1907). The national team is currently ranked in the top

20 in the IIHF World Ranking. In recent years numerous French ice hockey players have made the NHL, the premier ice hockey competition on

the planet based in the United States and Canada including Stanley Cup winner Cristobal Huet and 

Dallas Stars forward Antoine Roussel.

France holds the tennis Grand Slam tournament Roland Garros. France's

current stars include Richard Gasquet, Gaël Monfils, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 

Gilles Simon, Alize CornetAravane Rezaï. Other stars from the past

include Yannick Noah (father of Joakim Noah), Guy Forget, Henri Leconte, 

Amélie Mauresmo, Mary Pierce and Marion Bartoli.

TENNIS

Developed in France, parkour ("art du déplacement") is a physical activity that is difficult to categorize. It is an art that resembles self-defense and martial arts. According to the founder David Belle, the spirit of 

parkour is guided in part by the notions of "escape" and "reach," that is, the idea of using quick thinking 

with dexterity to get out of difficult situations.An important characteristic of parkour is efficiency. The basic meaning of this is that a traceur must not 

merely move as fast as he can, Bur's unofficial motto is être et durer (to be and to last), efficiency also involves avoiding injuries, short and long-term.

PARKOUR

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