Island Games SportsYou are in: Jersey > Island Games > Games Sports  Man has kicked things in the name of fun since time began, but modern football was born in the UK.  The first official triathlon was in 1974, despite the sport having been invented 50 years earlier.  Athletics is the oldest organised sport, split into four main activities.  A cunning plan that culminated in the birth of the cycling time-trial - plus deets of all the events  Archery goes back to the stone age. Learn about the different bows in use in the Island games.  Several different disciplines to get to grips with.  How size is not now so important as skill.....  A sport that combines surfing and sailing, where you don't have to wait for the waves.  Whiff Whaff and Gossima were the previous names for the relatively young sport of Table Tennis.  How Scotland is considered the birthplace of Golf, and all about ideal rabbit runs....  Why the name of volleyball, a sport now over 100 years old, was changed from "Mintonette"... The first official triathlon was in 1974, despite the sport having been invented 50 years earlier.  Basketball was invented by a PE teacher as a way to keep his students fit and warm in winter.  Tennis is one of the few sports with rules that have remained unchanged over the years.  Man has kicked things in the name of fun since time began, but modern football was born in the UK. You are in: Jersey > Island Games > Games Sports |
