Sports in Great

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Sport in the United Kingdom 
 Sport in the United Kingdom plays an important role in 
British culture and the United Kingdom has played a significant role in
the organisation and spread of sporting culture globally. In the infancy
of many organised sports, the Home Nations, England, Scotland, Wales,
and Ireland were heavily involved in setting out the formal rules of
many sports, and formed among the earliest separate governing bodies, [
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 national teams and domestic league competitions. After 1922, some
sports formed separate bodies for Northern Ireland, though many
continued to be organised on an all-Ireland basis. for this reason, in
many though not all sports, most domestic and international sport is
carried on on a Home Nations basis, and England, Wales, Scotland and
Ireland (or Northern Ireland) are recognised as national entities.
Popular sports in Great Britain
 The modern global game of football evolved out of
traditional football games played in England in the 19th
century and today is the highest profile sport in the United
Kingdom by a very wide margin. This has been the case for
generations, but the gap is widely perceived to have
increased since the early 1990s, and football's dominance is
often seen as a threat to other sports. Each of the four
countries in the UK organises its own football leagues for
both men and women; there are however a few teams who
play in another country.
 Cricket
 The early reference to the separate national identities in the
United Kingdom is perhaps best illustrated by the game of
cricket. Cricket is claimed to have been invented in England.
The national sport of England is cricket. The 
England cricket team, controlled by the 
England and Wales Cricket Board,[20] (commonly shortened
to just "England" and "ECB" respectively) was the only
national team in the United Kingdom with Test status until 
Ireland, which represents 
both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, received
Test status in June 2017.
 Rugby
 Like association football, rugby union and rugby league both developed
from traditional British football games in the 19th century. Rugby football
was codified in 1871. Dissatisfaction with the governance of the sport led, in
1895, to a number of prominent clubs establishing what would become
rugby league. The estranged clubs, based in mainly working class industrial
regions of northern England, had wished to be allowed to compensate their
players for missing work to play matches but they had been opposed by
those clubs that were predominantly middle class and often based in the
south of the country. Subsequently, rugby league developed somewhat
different rules. For much of the 20th century there was considerable
antagonism towards rugby league from rugby union. 
One Member of Parliament described it as "one of the longest (and daftest)
grievances in history" with anyone over the age of 18 associated with rugby
league being banned forever from rugby union. [21] This antagonism has
abated since 1995 when rugby union's international governing body, now
known as World Rugby, "opened" rugby union to professionalism.
 Individual Sports
BOX professional boxing offers some of the largest purses outside the
 British
United States to a few elite professional boxers who become nationally
known. British heavyweight contenders are especially popular, but most 
British world champions have fought in the middle weight bracket. The
governing bodies of professional boxing are the 
British Boxing Board of Control and British & Irish Boxing Authority. It is
generally felt that British professional boxing is in decline in the early years
of the 21st century. The reasons for this include: the fact that football now
offers a relatively large number of sportsmen the chance to make the sort of
income traditionally only available to world boxing champions, reducing
the incentive for athletic youngsters to accept the greater risks of a boxing
career; the acquisition of the rights to most major fights by Sky Sports,
which means that fewer boxers become national figures than in the past; and
the knock the sport's credibility has taken from the multiplicity of title
sanctioning bodies.

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 Mixed Martial Arts
 In Great Britain, Mixed martial arts (MMA) failed to capitalise on the early
momentum in the United States and has not seen anywhere near the popularity
levels MMA has received in USA. However, things slowly started to change
when Michael Bisping came onto the scene and won The Ultimate Fighter 3.
Bisping built UK MMA a bit quicker alongside Ross Pearson and James Wilks
. The 2 winners of The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom.
Michael Bisping coached Team UK opposing Dan Henderson who coached
Team USA. UK MMA is being pushed further with the likes of Dan Hardy, 
Brad Pickett, John Hathaway, Jimi Manuwa, Rosi Sexton plus many more,
including Northern Ireland's Norman Parke, winner of 
The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes Lightweight tournament and Scotland's 
Joanne Calderwood who competed on 
The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned.
 Golf
 Modern competitive golf originated in Scotland. In the early 20th century British
golfers were the best in the world, winning nearly all of the US Open championships
before World War I. American golfers later became dominant, but Britain has
continued to produce leading golfers, with an especially strong period in the 1980s
and 1990s. There are usually more British golfers than others in the top 100 of the 
Official World Golf Ranking relative to population, that is to say more than a fifth as
many. Several British golfers have reached the world's top 10 in the early 2000s.
England's Lee Westwood ended Tiger Woods' five-year reign atop the rankings in
autumn 2010. In May 2011, fellow Englishman Luke Donald reached the top of the
rankings, and by the end of that year became the first golfer in history to top the
money lists of both the PGA and European Tours in the same season. Other British
golfers to have appeared in the top 10 in the 21st century are Paul Casey, Ian Poulter
 and Justin Rose, all from England and Rory McIlroy from Northern Ireland.
 Motorsport
 Britain is the centre of Formula One, with the majority of the Formula
One teams based in England, and more world titles won by drivers from
Britain than from any other country, including Mike Hawthorn; 
Graham Hill (twice); Jim Clark (twice); John Surtees, also a world
champion in motorcycling; Jackie Stewart (three times); James Hunt; 
Nigel Mansell; Graham Hill's son, Damon Hill; Lewis Hamilton (seven
times); and Jenson Button. The British Grand Prix takes place at 
Silverstone each June/July.
 The United Kingdom hosted the very first F1 Grand Prix in 1950 at 
Silverstone, the current location of the British Grand Prix held each year
in July. The country also hosts legs of the World Rally Championship and
has its own touring car racing championship, the 
British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), and the 
British Formula Three Championship.
 Snooker
 Other sports with loyal domestic followings include snooker,
which is a popular television sport as it fills their schedules at low
cost, and also attracts good audiences. However, its popularity has
waned somewhat since 1985, when nearly a third of the British
population watched the conclusion of the celebrated Dennis Taylor
 versus Steve Davis World Championship final even though it
ended after midnight. All but two events on the professional
snooker tour in 2007/2008 are played in the United Kingdom, and
the World Championship has been played at The Crucible Theatre
, Sheffield, since 1977. There are many amateur leagues set up
across the country, featuring team matches between snooker clubs.
 Equestrian sports
Horseracing
 Thoroughbred racing, which originated under Charles II of England as
the "sport of kings", occupies a key place in British sport, probably
ranking in the top four or five sports in terms of media coverage. There
are sixty racecourses in Great Britain with annual racecourse attendance
exceeding six million and roughly 13,500 races being held across Britain
and Ireland each year. The sport in Great Britain is governed by the 
British Horseracing Authority. The two racecourses in Northern Ireland
are governed by Horse Racing Ireland, which runs the sport on an 
All-Ireland basis. The town of Newmarket is considered the centre of
English racing, largely because of the famous Newmarket Racecourse.
 The two forms of horseracing in the United Kingdom are National Hunt,
which involves jumping over fences or hurdles, and the more glamorous
flat racing. National Hunt is a winter sport and flat racing is a summer
sport, but the seasons are very long and they overlap. I