The sport is the sixth-most popular sport for boys by participants, behind football and track and field and ahead of tennis, swimming and golf.

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These universities stockpiled the best athletes in football, basketball, track and field, swimming and wrestling and compiled long winning streaks.

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More than 200 competitors took part in the games in Colorado last week and the British team competed in archery, cycling, swimming, track and field and sitting volleyball.

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They also include basketball, shooting, archery, swimming and track and field.

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Whitehead tried every sport he could including archery, swimming, cricket, gymnastics, canoeing, track and field and sledge hockey.

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According to the study, which my colleague Susan Adams wrote up for FORBES, the careers of 840 American and British medal winners from seven different sports at the summer games (rowing, swimming, sailing, basketball, boxing, gymnastics, and track and field) were analyzed.

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The majority of those medals will be given in sports that originated, in their modern form, in Britain: archery, athletics (track and field), boxing, badminton, field hockey, football (soccer), rowing, sailing, swimming, water polo, table tennis, and tennis.

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