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A sports governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning

function. Sports governing bodies come in various forms, and have a variety of
regulatory functions. Examples of this can include disciplinary action for
rule infractions and deciding on rule changes in the sport that they govern. Governing
bodies have different scopes. They may cover a range of sport at an International level,
such as the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic
Committee, or only a single sport at a national level, such as the Rugby Football
League. National bodies will largely have to be affiliated to international bodies for the
same sport. The first international federations were formed at the end of the 19th
century.

Types of sports governing bodies[edit]

Every sport has a different governing body that can define the way that the sport
operates through its affiliated clubs and societies. This is because sports have different
levels of difficulty and skill, so they can try to organize the people playing their sport by
ability and by age. The different types of sport governing bodies are all shown below:
International sports federations are responsible for one sport (or a group of similar sport
disciplines, such as aquatics or skiing). They create a common set of rules and organize
international competitions. The promotion of the sport are also a task of an international
federation.
Trusts are organizations or groups that have control over money that will be used to
help someone else, such as the Youth Sport Trust.
National federations have the same objectives as an international federation, but within
the scope of one country, or even part of a country, as the name implies. They support
local clubs and are often responsible for national teams. National Olympic Committees
and National Paralympic Committees are both a type of National Federation, as they
are responsible for a country's participation in the Olympic Games and in
the Paralympic Games respectively. However, a national governing body (NGB) can be
different from a national federation due to government recognition requirements.[1] Also,
NGBs can be a supraorganization representing a range of unrelated organizations
operating in a particular sport as evident in the example of the Northern Ireland
Federation of Sub-Aqua Clubs.