SPORTS

Sport plays an important role in people’s lives in the UK, it is a main form of entertainment for a large number of people, especially for men .Moreover, and there are a number of famous sporting venues in Britain such as football, rugby union, horse-racing, cricket, golf and motor racing.

However, I am particularly interested in rugby which similar to American football in the ball uses (egg-shaped) and its aim (to carry the ball over the opposing team’s line)

Rugby originated from Rugby school in Warwickshire. It is similar to football, but played with an oval ball. In particular, around this time the influence of Dr Thomas Arnold, Rugby's headmaster who made great contribution to the development of the rugby. Rugby was beginning to be felt around all the other boarding school, and his emphasis on sport as part of a balanced education naturally encouraged the general adoption of the Rugby rules across the country, and, ultimately, the worldRules,

In the rugby competition, a player who does not have the ball should not be interfered. Furthermore, There are 2 types of rugby in Britain - Rugby League, which is played nationally between regional teams, and Rugby Union, played between international teams at fierce competitions such as the Six Nations and the Rugby Union World Cup there are fifteen players per team in rugby union and thirteen in rugby league; playing time is eighty minutes. In addition, there are no time-outs and players do not wear body armours, Players can carry the ball and tackle each other. The best rugby teams compete in the Super League final each September.

For many years Rugby was only played by the rich upper classes, but now it is popular all over the country. There are two different types of rugby - Rugby League, played mainly in the north of England, and Rugby Union, played in the rest of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, together with France and Italy, play in an annual tournament called the Six Nations.

Famous players,

Four former England representatives have been inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame such as Bill Beaumont, Martin Johnson, Jason Leonard, and Wavell Wakefield.

Venue: Britain is home to some of rugby's most famous grounds, including Twickenham in London- the home of Rugby World Cup champions and the Web Ellis Cup. Then there's the spectacular 72,500-seat Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, and Murrayfield in Edinburth- the home of Scottish rugby.Achievements

The United Kingdom is to have a golden decade of sport after England won the right to hold the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

In China,it is said table tennies is the nation sports which is placed by two or four people hitting a ball with rackets back and forth to each other on a table. However, table tennies, actually, stem from Britain in 1800S.There are many outstanding and famous table tennies in Chian such as Yaping Deng ,Guoliang Zhang, Yiling Zhang.