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athletics ani) sport (idrott).
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Playing "Park", outside Visby.
For so-called general athletic sports — comprising walking and running,
jumping, wrestling, throwing the javelin, tug-of-war, etc. — a number of clubs
have been organized in the country, and Swedish sportsmen have successfully
taken part in the great International competitions. Annual athletic meetings
are arranged in many parts of the country. Some purely Swedish exercises in
trials of strength and throwing are included in the list of events, such as
e. g., the Gottland games of "Kasta varpa" and "Störta stång", the latter of
which is identical with the popular Scotch sport of "tossing the caber".
Of ball games there are several national varieties of great excellence, of which,
the principal one —- "Gottland Park" — is the principal and may be placed on
an equal footing with English cricket. Football has become the most popular
game in Sweden and several matches are played every week until the snow
covers the ground. The Swedish Football Union is the governing body.
Lawn-tennis has also become a very popular game in Sweden, and many clubs have
been formed for its exercise among which the Royal Tennis Club has quite a
number of good players. Annual matches are arranged by this club.
Bicycling, in Sweden as everywhere else in the civilized world, has become
a sport very generally practised, and the Swedish makes of machines
sucess-fully compete with foreign ones. A number of bicycle clubs exist. Annual
matches are arranged, especially road races.
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