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Juuso Pykälistö, driving aPeugeot 206 WRC at the2003Swedish Rally, lands a high-speed "yump" on two wheels in thesnow. Thisrally competition is part of theWorld Rally Championship and was the first rally to be held on snow.

Asurfer off the coast ofSanta Cruz, California, is performing a "cutback", or very sharp turn. Santa Cruz and the surroundingNorthern California coastline is a popular surfing destination; however, the year-round low temperature of thePacific Ocean in that region (averaging 57 °F or 14 °C) necessitates the use ofwetsuits.

AmericanwindsurferRobby Naish at the 2006 Windsurf World Cup, off the coast ofSylt,Germany. Naish was one of the first athletes to gain long-lasting international fame as a windsurfer. He won his first overall World Championship title, at the age of 13.

Congo national football teamgoalkeeper Destin Onka (right) preventsAustrianforwardRubin Okotie (left) from scoring a goal at the2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Inassociation football, the goalkeeper is the only player who is permitted to touch the ball with his hands or arms in open play.

Ice hockey playerWayne Gretzky, as a member of theNew York Rangers of theNational Hockey League (NHL) in 1997. Gretzky, nicknamed "The Great One", is widely considered the best hockey player of all time. Upon his retirement in 1999, he held forty regular-season records, fifteen playoff records, and sixAll-Star records. He is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season—a feat he accomplished four times. In addition, he tallied over 100 points in 15 NHL seasons, 13 of them consecutively. He is the only player to have his number (99) officially retired by the NHL for all teams.

Two racers cross the finish line of the250cc class at the 2007Swifts Creeklawn mower races. In thismotorsport, competitors race modifiedlawn mowers, usually of the ride-on or self-propelled variety. Original mower engines are retained but blades are removed for safety. Lawn mowers have also been used inkart racing, a different sport.

Ingridiron football, thequarterback is the leader of theoffensive team. At most levels, but especially at thecollege andprofessional level, the quarterback is one of the most visible and important roles on the team, being responsible both for calling plays and making decisions during the play. Shown here isShea Smith of theAir Force Falcons during the2007 Armed Forces Bowl.

Ed Walsh (1881–1959) was an Americanbaseballpitcher who played for theChicago White Sox andBoston Braves from 1904 to 1917. His careerearned run average of 1.82 is the lowestmajor league ERA ever posted, but the record is unofficial since ERA was not an official statistic in theAmerican League prior to 1913. After his playing career ended, he also served as anumpire and coach.

Seven players from the1937 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The players shown here represented theAmerican League team and every one is a member of theHall of Fame. Left to right:Lou Gehrig,Joe Cronin,Bill Dickey,Joe DiMaggio,Charlie Gehringer,Jimmie Foxx, andHank Greenberg.

A man engaged inwaterskiing, a sport in which an individual is pulled behind aboat or acable ski installation on a body of water, skimming the surface. Waterskiing is a relatively young sport, having been invented in the early 20th century. The skis this person is wearing are specialized forski jumping.

Zack Greinke is apitcher for theMajor League Baseball teamMilwaukee Brewers. He began his career with theKansas City Royals (as pictured here), during which time he won theAmerican LeagueCy Young Award, given to the league's best pitcher. InDecember 2010, Greinke asked to betraded, saying he was not motivated to play for a rebuilding team.

A late 1930sFederal Art Project poster advertising thebobsledtrack inLake Placid, New York, United States, which had been used in the1932 Winter Olympics. Thevillage is located in theAdirondack Mountains and is known as atourist destination forwinter sports,mountain climbing, andgolf. It is one of the three places to have twice hosted theWinter Olympic Games and the first location inNorth America to host two Olympic games.

Joe Oakley (right), being penalised by the official (centre) for "dabbing" his foot on the ground during amountain bike trials competition. Trials riding is amountain biking discipline in which the rider attempts to pass through anobstacle course without setting foot to ground. Originating inCatalonia, it is popular within Europe and has a small following worldwide.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'sHendrick Motorsportspit crew execute apit stop at aSprint Cup Series competition atDarlington Raceway,South Carolina, inMay 2008. Inmotor sport, pit stops are when the racing vehicle gets more fuel, new wheels, repairs, mechanical adjustments, a driver change, or any combination of the above.

PanamanianbaseballpitcherMariano Rivera has spent his entire 16-yearMajor League Baseball career with theNew York Yankees. An 11-timeAll-Star and five-timeWorld Series champion, Rivera has accumulated 559saves, thesecond-most in MLB history, and he holds Major League postseason records for saves andearned run average, among other records.

Robbie McEwen, Australian professional road cyclist, wearing hisTeam Katusha (Russian: Катюша) cycling kit at the start of the 2010Jayco Bay Cycling Classic. McEwen's accolades include winning themaillot vert (green jersey) overall Points Classification in theTour de France three times, along with winning 12 individual stages, and competing in three Olympic Games. The green and gold bands around his arms identify him as anAustralian National Cycling Champion.

Léon Georget (1879–1949) was a racingcyclist fromPreuilly-sur-Claise,Indre-et-Loire, France. He was known asThe Father of theBol d'Or, having won the race nine times between 1903 and 1919 in Paris.

Ksenia Semenova (b. 1992) is a Russianartistic gymnast. She was the2007 World Champion on theuneven bars. At the2008 European Championships, she was a member of the silver-medal-winning Russian team, as well as champion on the uneven bars and thebalance beam. She followed this up by winning the all-around championship at the2009 European Championships and was part of the gold-medal Russian team at the2010 European and2010 World Championships. Injuries have prevented her from competing since then.

Nasser Al-Attiyah, a Qatarirally driver, in aFord Fiesta S2000 at the2010 Rally Finland. He is the only Arab to have won theDakar Rally, which he did in2011. In addition to driving, Al-Attiyah is asport shooter and won a bronze medal in the2012 Summer Olympics inskeet.

Jeremy Doyle (1983–2011) was an Australian wheelchair basketball player. Left paraplegic after a car accident, he was classified as a1 point player. While representing his country Doyle won two gold medals, first at the 2009Paralympic World Cup and again at the2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship.

Kiril Lazarov (b. 10 May 1980) is a Macedonianhandball player active since 1991. He currently plays forHBC Nantes and is also the captain of theNorth Macedonia men's national handball team.

Official portrait of the1899 Michigan Wolverines football team, anAmerican football team which represented theUniversity of Michigan in the1899 season. Coached byGustave Ferbert, theWolverines opened the season with six consecutiveshutouts, outscoring opponents in those six contests by a combined score of 109 to 0. However, they finished the season by going 2–2 in their final four games, losing against theUniversity of Pennsylvania Quakers and a championship game against theWisconsin Badgers.

Wheelchair basketball isbasketball played by people in wheelchairs and is considered one of the majordisabled sports practiced. Depicted here is a game from the first round of the 2012Euroleague tournament, showing players from Toulouse (in red) and Roma (in white).

Fredrik Pettersson (born 1987) is a Swedish professionalice hockey player, pictured while withFrölunda HC and now playing forHC Donbass in theKontinental Hockey League. Aright winger, Pettersson's international record includes a gold at the2013 IIHF World Championship and bronze in2010.

Aline-out at arugby union match betweenStade Toulousain andLyon OU. When a player puts the ballout of the field of play, the opposing team is awarded a line-out; in the case of apenalty kick, the team that was awarded the penalty throws into the resulting line-out. A line-out is also awarded if a player in possession of the ball crosses or touches thetouch-line while still in possession of the ball.

Fencing is the sport of fighting with swords; in modern usage the word usually denotes competitive fencing, rather thanclassical fencing. Here,Fabian Kauter (right) hitsDiego Confalonieri (left) with aflèche attack at the final of the Challenge Réseau Ferré de France–Trophée Monal 2012.

Sandboarding is aboardsport similar tosnowboarding, but competitions take place on sand dunes rather than snow-covered mountains. Here, a member of the US Navy sandboards down a dune inJebel Ali,Dubai.

Tony Estanguet (b. 1978) is a French slalom canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Before announcing his retirement, he competed in fourOlympic Games and, with his win at the2012 London Games, became the first French Olympian to win three gold medals in the same Olympic discipline.

The leaders of thewomen's road race, one of the cycling events at the2012 Olympic Games in London, on 29 July 2012. The eventual medallists (left to right:Lizzie Armitstead (silver),Marianne Vos (gold) andOlga Zabelinskaya (bronze)) were photographed approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the finish line.

Australianartistic gymnastLauren Mitchell (b. 1991) performing alayout step-out on thebalance beam during the41st World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in London, United Kingdom, on 14 October 2009; at the Championships, Mitchell won two silver medals, one for the balance beam and another forfloor exercises. Since her first medal in 2007, Mitchell has placed in the World Championships,World Cup, andCommonwealth Games, and competed in twoOlympic Games.

Zoran Dragić (right) committing apersonal foul onCarl English during a 2013 basketball game between Game Estudiantes and Unicaja Málaga. Personal fouls, defined as illegal personal contact with an opponent which affects gameplay, are the most common type offoul in basketball, but are not always consideredunsportsmanlike.

Maddison Elliott (b. 1998) is an Australian swimmer. She isS8 classified, having right sidecerebral palsy as a result of aneonatal stroke. At the2012 Summer Paralympics in London, she became the youngest Australian Paralympic medallist by winning bronze medals in the women's 400 m and 100 m freestyle S8 events. She then became the youngest Australian gold medallist when she was a member of the women's 4×100 m freestyle relay 34 points team.

USOlympic gymnastMcKayla Maroney posing with PresidentBarack Obama. They are wearing the "McKayla is not impressed" expression of disappointment which became aninternet phenomenon after Maroney made it upon winning a silver medal at the2012 London Olympics.Yahoo! listed the photograph of Maroney on the podium as the most viral picture of 2012.

Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) was an American formerprofessional boxer, generally considered among the greatestheavyweights in the history of the sport. A controversial and polarizing figure during his early career, Ali is now highly regarded for the skills he displayed in the ring plus the values he exemplified outside of it: religious freedom, racial justice and the triumph of principle over expedience. Ali remains the only three-timelineal world heavyweight champion, having won the title in 1964, 1974, and 1978.

Balzhinima Tsyrempilov is aWorld Cup-winning and formerworld number-onearcher from Russia. He has competed in both the2004 and2008 Summer Olympics, though he has not medalled.

Ty Cobb (1886–1961), shown here sliding into third base on August 16, 1924, was an AmericanMajor League Baseball (MLB)outfielder. He spent twenty-two seasons with theDetroit Tigers, including six as the team'splayer-manager, and finished his career with thePhiladelphia Athletics. During this time Cobb set ninety MLB records, though his abilities were sometimes overshadowed by his surly temperament and aggressive playing style. In 1936 Cobb was made an inaugural member of theBaseball Hall of Fame, and in 1999 editors at theSporting News ranked him third on their list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players".

Nikolay Kovalev (R) attacksÁron Szilágyi (L) in the semi-finals of themen's sabre event at the2013 World Fencing Championships. Although Kovalev won, he lost in the final againstVeniamin Reshetnikov.Held inBudapest, Hungary, from 5 to 12 August, the 2013 Championships saw 827 fencers from 101 countries compete. Russia won the most medals (11), followed by Italy (6) and Ukraine (4).

Iris Pruysen, an athlete with anartificial leg, competes in thelong jump at the 2014 Athletics Paralympic Meeting inStade Sébastien Charléty, Paris, France.Disabled sports, also known as parasports, are sports played by persons with a permanent or temporarydisability, be itphysical orintellectual. Many disabled sports are based on existing able bodied sports, modified to meet the needs of persons with a disability. However, several sports have been specifically created for persons with a disability.

Eugen Sandow (1867–1925) was a pioneering Germanbodybuilder. Born inKönigsberg,Prussia, he joined a circus to avoid military service. Fellow strongman Ludwig Durlacher urged Sandow to travel toLondon and take part in astrongman competition, which he handily won. Sandow rose rapidly to fame and was soon touring Europe and the United States, being featured in ashort film series that depicted him flexing. After a bout of ill health, Sandow focused on opening public gyms, inventing or improving exercise equipment, and training would-be military recruits as well asKing George V. Sandow is now known as the "father of modern bodybuilding".

Simone Biles (born March 14, 1997), after receiving the gold medal forthe all-around event at the2016 Summer Olympics inRio de Janeiro. Biles also won golds inthe vault andthe floor events in Rio, a bronze medal onthe balance beam, and a gold inthe team all-around event as part of a U.S. team dubbed the "Final Five".

An illustration showing theStade Françaisrugby union team, wearing dark blue jerseys, playing against Racing Club (now known asRacing 92) in 1906. On 20 March 1892, the two teams played in the first ever French rugby championship in a one-off game.

Alessandro Martinelli (born 30 May 1993) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as amidfielder forSerie B clubBrescia. Born inMendrisio,Ticino, he moved south to Italy to begin his professional career in 2009. Martinelli then left the reserve team ofSampdoria in 2012 forPortosummaga. After returning to Sampdoria in 2013, he was signed byVenezia later that year and then byModena in 2014. Martinelli left for Brescia in 2015 and joined the club on a permanent basis in 2017. From 2008 to 2013, he also played for variousSwiss national youth football teams.This picture, taken in 2015, shows Martinelli playing for Modena in a match againstTernana.

Laura Dekker (born 1995) is a New Zealand–born Dutch sailor who completed a solocircumnavigation of the globe in a 12.4-metre (41-foot) two-mastedketch from 2010 to 2012. Dekker was fourteen years old when she set off from Gibraltar rather than the Netherlands, because the Dutch shipping regulations did not permit anyone under the age of sixteen to skipper a boat of that size in Dutch waters. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean, she started her record-breaking attempt fromSint Maarten in the Caribbean, passing through thePanama Canal and traversing the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans before completing her circumnavigation back at Sint Maarten. This picture shows Dekker attending the 2011 Hiswa Boat Show in Amsterdam.

Yekaterina Skudina (born 21 March 1981) is a Russian world champion and Olympic sailor. She was awarded theRoy Yamaguchi Memorial Trophy for winningthe world championships in the women'sSnipe class in 1998, and the bronze medal at theYngling open world championships in 2007. At the2011 World Championships, Skudinafinished fourth in theElliott 6m class. In addition, she has competed in three Olympic Games, finishing eighth in the Yngling classin 2004, sixth in the same classin 2008, and fourth in the Elliott 6m classin 2012.This photograph of Skudina, taken in 2009, is part of a collection of 500 images of Russian sportspeople released toWikimedia Commons by Bolshoi Sport.

Thepacu jawi is a traditional bull race inTanah Datar,West Sumatra, Indonesia. In the race, a jockey stands holding on to a pair of loosely tied bulls while the bulls run across a muddy track in arice field. Recently, it has become a tourist attraction supported by the government, and the subject of multiple award-winning photographs. Dramatic high-speed action, mud splashing, and the jockeys' distinctive facial expressions add to its aesthetic value.

Cynthia Woodhead (born February 7, 1964) is an American former competitive swimmer, world champion, Olympic medalist, and former world-record holder. At the age of fourteen, she won three gold medals at the1978 World Aquatics Championships, and set seven world records during her career.

BASE jumping is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects, using a parachute to descend safely to the ground. Theacronym stands for four categories of fixed objects from which the jumps can be made:buildings,antennae,spans, and earth (cliffs). In this photograph, a BASE jumper launches himself from the top of the Sapphire Tower inIstanbul, Turkey.

Hurdling is the act of running over an obstacle at high speed or in a sprint. It is a highly specialized form ofobstacle racing, and forms part oftrack and field in thesport of athletics. In hurdling events, barriers known as hurdles are set at precisely measured heights and distances. This photograph shows the Austrian athlete Leon Okafor taking part in the men's110-metre (120 yd) hurdles at the Leichtathletik Gala inLinz in 2018.

Elena Runggaldier (born 10 July 1990) is an Italianski jumper andNordic-combined skier. She won a silver medal at theFIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011, and has taken part in fourFIS Ski Jumping World Cups and represented Italy in ski jumping in twoWinter Olympic Games. This photograph shows Runggaldier inHinzenbach, Austria, where she competed in the2014–15 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup.

Richèl Hogenkamp (born 16 April 1992) is a professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Her highestWTA singles ranking is 94, which she reached on 24 July 2017. On theITF Women's World Tennis Tour, she has won 16 singles and 14 doubles titles. This photograph depicts Hogenkamp competing at the 2015Madrid Open.

Grand Prix motorcycle racing 125 cc championGábor Talmácsi in aroad race during the2007 season.

Horses race on grass at the 2006 Tambo Valley Races inSwifts Creek, Victoria,Australia.Horseracing is the third most popularspectator sport in Australia, behindAustralian rules football andrugby league, with almost 2 million admissions to the 379 racecourses throughout Australia in 2002–03.

Motocross is form ofmotorcycle orATV racing held on enclosed off-road circuits. The tracks are often quite large, natural, terrains with very few man made jumps, unlikeSupercross, a sport that was originally derived from Motocross and is executed on a smaller track with many more extreme man made obstacles.

Thebalance beam is a rectangularartistic gymnastics apparatus, as well as the event performed using the apparatus. Pictured isDaniele Hypólito in the final of the women's artistic gymnastics competition at theRio 2016 Olympic Games, where Brazil finished in 8th place.

Martin Sesaker representing Norway incurling at the2012 Winter Youth Olympics.

Priit Narusk in the qualification for the Tour de Skicross-country skiing competition in Prague.

Arugby footballscrum.

Mara Friton in ahandball match in the GermanHandball-Bundesliga.

Boxing is asport where two participants of similarweight attack each other with theirfists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called "rounds". Modern boxing began in 1867 with theMarquess of Queensberry rules. Currently, there are two distinct branches of boxing: Professional and Olympic, which have different rules, but are similar in execution.